Tyranny Quotes - Page 17

• The sin of all time has been the exercise of assumed powers. This is the essence of tyranny.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Exercise, Essence, Sin

  Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1872). “A Speech on the Great Social Problem of Labor & Capital Delivered at Cooper Institute, New York City ... May 8, 1871, Before the Labor Reform League”, p.32

  46 Copy quote

  Show source

• In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people.

  Robert Peel

  People, Democracy, Calling

  27 Copy quote

• The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.

  Seneca the Younger

  Slave, Masters, Servant

  4 Copy quote

• The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is her restoration to equal rights and privileges with man.... Need we wonder, then, at the sad spectacle which humanity offers us? Its hideous wars, its social abominations, its foul creeds, its treacheries, vices, wants, diseases, lusts, tyrannies, and crimes are the natural outcome of the subjugation of one half of the human race by the other.

  Tennessee Celeste Claflin

  Sex, War, Men

  4 Copy quote

• I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing the debt, I'm running into the tyranny of zero, which is where you can't reduce (the debt) any more

  Alan Greenspan

  Running, Zero, Talking

  4 Copy quote

• It was during the eighteenth century - a period of boastful satisfaction with the nice balances within the English constitution - that Englishmen came to accept the Whig view of the utility of an armed citizenry. The armed citizen was not only affirmed to be protecting himself but, together with his fellows, provided the ultimate check on tyranny.

  Joyce Lee Malcolm

  Nice, Views, Balance

  4 Copy quote

• Self-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to themselves, and tyrants to all the world besides.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love Is, Men, Self

  4 Copy quote

• Hardness ever of hardness is mother.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Hardness

  William Shakespeare (1868). “The Works of William Shakspere”, p.598

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think to be cut off from your heart is the greatest tyranny in the world.

  Eve Ensler

  Heart, Cutting, Thinking

  "Exclusive Interview With Eve Ensler, Recipient of the 2011 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think it's very humble to believe that there is no man, woman or child who should live in tyranny. That people who say, well, maybe Arabs just aren't ready for democracy or maybe Africans just are going to have corrupt governments, that seems to me arrogant.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Children, Believe, Humble

  Source: www.msnbc.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• If at age 10 I say there are monsters in the basement and they don't believe it, I would have stayed in that house. My father would have said "Shut up and get to your room." So I thought the only sanctioned tyranny in the world is parenthood and everybody goes "Yeah." It's a dictatorship - parenthood.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Father, Believe, House

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You can become so manipulated and controlled by what you think other people expect you to do that you literally live under the tyranny of other people's expectations. And what I call the shoulds and the oughts. I believe that hundreds of thousands of people miss their God-ordained destiny and they never really feel satisfied, content and fulfilled, because they're so busy trying to keep everybody else satisfied with them that they don't ever get around to doing what they really want to do.

  Joyce Meyer

  Believe, Destiny, Thinking

  "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. May 19, 2005.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that Englishman as an Indian.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Land, India, Welcome

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.40, Penguin Books India

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• To say that we have to surrender to judicial supremacy is to do what Jefferson warned against, which is, in essence, surrender to judicial tyranny.

  Mike Huckabee

  Essence, Surrender, Supremacy

  "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. September 6, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Marriage is not defined in the federal Constitution at all; it's a matter for the states. And applying the Fourteenth Amendment to the equality of men and women and their relationship in marriage is totally different than redefining marriage. Here is the overreach of the judiciary. This, if allowed to stand without any congressional approval, without any kind of enabling legislation, is what Jefferson warned us about. That's judicial tyranny.

  Mike Huckabee

  Men, Different, Enabling

  "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. September 6, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency.

  Albert Einstein

  Funny, Stupid, Science

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.28, Broadway Books

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• An annual or frequent choice of Magistrates, who in a year, or in a few years, are again left upon a level with their neighbors, is most likely to prevent usurpation and tyranny ... If rulers know that they shall in short period of time, be again out of power, and ... may be liable to be called to account for misconduct, it will guard them against maladministration.

  Clinton Rossiter

  Years, Choices, Political

  6 Copy quote

• The house of representatives ... can make no law, which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as the great mass of society. This has always been deemed one of the strongest bonds by which human policy can connect the rulers and the people together. It creates between them that communion of interest, and sympathy of sentiments, of which few governments have furnished examples; but without which every government degenerates into tyranny.

  James Madison

  Government, Law, People

  10 Copy quote

• I think Churchill is right, the only thing to be said for democracy is that there is nothing else that's any better, and therefore he used to say, Tyranny tempered by assassination, but lots of assassination. People say, If the Congress were more representative of the people it would be better. I say the Congress is too damn representative. It's just as stupid as the people are; just as uneducated, just as dumb, just as selfish.

  Dean Acheson

  Stupid, Selfish, Thinking

  47 Copy quote

• Once I had a shrink who said, "Your parents are the fuel you run on," because I was raised in the tyranny of good taste. If my parents hadn't taught me all that, I couldn't have made fun of it. So I thank them, and they were loving. It takes a long time to realize that they made me feel safe when I lived a life which was very not safe.

  John Waters

  Running, Fun, Long

  Source: www.timeout.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Let each one of us pray day and night for the downtrodden millions who are held fast by poverty, priestcraft, and tyranny. Pray day and night for them. I care more to preach religion to them than to the high and the rich.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Night, Care

  Swami Vivekananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.224, SkyLight Paths Publishing

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The action of Pity leaps quicker than light from the highest place to the lowest to bring healing and joy, whatever the cost to itself. It changes darkness into light and evil into good. But it will not, at the cunning tears of Hell, impose on good the tyranny of evil. Every disease that submits to a cure shall be cured: but we will not call blue yellow to please those who insist on having jaundice, nor make a midden of the world's garden for the sake of some who cannot abide the smell of roses.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Religious, Healing

  11 Copy quote

• So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

  Voltaire

  Religious, Fear, Sleep

  709 Copy quote

• It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Communication, Carpe Diem, Ideas

  4 Copy quote

• Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.

  Sydney Smith

  Faces, Nonsense, Mankind

  Sydney Smith (1856). “Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney Smith”, p.376

  8 Copy quote

  Show source