1834 - Tyranny

Time for some good tyranny quotes. Read these or I'll send the Department of Homeland Security to have a talk with you.


A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.
Crystal Eastman

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.
Norman Mailer

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
Beverly Sills

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
Bertrand Russell

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Thomas Jefferson

Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny.
Ben Nicholson

America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.
Peter Kropotkin


Well? Did you read all of them? There will be a test. Failure is not an option. Failure will result in reindoctrination at your cost. ..... Or maybe we'll just go have a beer and talk it over.