George Santayana Quotes About Tyranny

Quotes about: Tyranny

• Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions. It sanctified, quite like Mohammedism, extermination and tyranny. All this would have been impossible if, like Buddhism, it had looked only for peace and the liberation of souls. It looked beyond; it dreamt of infinite blisses and crowns it should be crowned with before an electrified universe and an applauding God... Buddhism had tried to quiet a sick world with anesthetics; Christianity sought to purge it with fire.

  George Santayana

  War, Ambition, Buddhism

• Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

  George Santayana

  Tyrants, Care, Instruments

  George Santayana (1995). “Dominations and Powers: Reflections on Liberty, Society, and Government”, p.65, Transaction Publishers

• There is no tyranny so hateful as a vulgar and anonymous tyranny. It is all-permeating, all-thwarting; it blasts every budding novelty and sprig of genius with its omnipresent and fierce stupidity. Such a headless people has the mind of a worm and the claws of a dragon.

  George Santayana

  Dragons, People, Stupidity

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.77, 谷月社

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