Tyranny Quotes - Page 4

• The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

  Daniel Webster

  Freedom, Political, Age

  Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple (2001). “The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster”, p.385, Beard Books

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• It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.

  Henry Miller

  Unique, Egalitarianism, Vices

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.49, New Directions Publishing

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• What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear?

  Juvenal

  Tyrants, Ears

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 825, Satires, IV, line 86, 1922.

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• Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Political, Socialism

  Ludwig Von Mises (2008). “Planning for Freedom: Let the Market System Work : a Collection of Essays and Addresses”

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• There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

  William Hazlitt

  Respect, Heart, Pride

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• Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

  Charles Peguy

  Teaching, Libertarian Party, Liberty

  "Basic Verities, Prose and Poetry" by Charles Peguy, translated by Ann and Julien Green, New York: Pantheon, (p. 153), 1943.

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• Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a settled purpose and plan of regeneration, unless a new notion of happiness is joined to the sense of present evil.

  Lord Acton

  Pain, Men, Evil

  Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom: Great Event”, p.224, VM eBooks

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• The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.

  Lord Acton

  Democracies Have, Majority Rule, Evil

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.103, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.

  John Stuart Mill

  Crush, Individuality, Liberty

  On Liberty ch. 3 (1859)

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• One reproduces only that which is striking; that is to say, the necessary. Thus, one's recollections and inventions are liberated from the tyranny which nature exerts.

  Edgar Degas

  Invention, Recollection, Liberated

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• [It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power.

  Walter Raleigh

  Mean, Tyrants, People

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• Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

  Hannah Arendt

  Women, Thinking, Tyrants

  In W. H. Auden A Certain World (1970) p. 369

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• It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

  Henry Ford

  Money, Morning, Believe

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• Socialism, whether it's the 'soft tyranny' of the EuroAmerican management state or the murderously repressive forms taken by Hitler, Stalin, Mao, or Pol Pot, is all about disindividuation, a steady, relentless erasure of the individual differences among us, everything that makes us who we are. 'Everybody in, nobody out!' is the marching mantra of militant collectivized medicine, but it accurately describes all other aspects of collectivism as well. No alternatives allowed, no choices, no individualism, no individuality, and ultimately, no individuation.

  L. Neil Smith

  Taken, Individual Differences, Medicine

  "Back to the Trees!". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. April 11, 2010.

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  It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind.

  Clara Barton

  Nursing, Luxury, Nurse

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• 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

  Fall, Worst Enemy, Tyrants

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• I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

  Clara Barton

  Success, Nursing, Past

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

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Peace, War, Historical

  "The Gulag Archipelago". Book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1973.

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• I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Men, Faith Religion

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• There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mind, Thrive, Delightful

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.54

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• I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.

  Twyla Tharp

  Tyrants, Vision, Willing

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

  Bertrand Russell

  Respect, Humor, Public Opinion

  "The Conquest of Happiness".

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• Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.

  Helen Keller

  Ideas, Defeat, Power Of Ideas

  "Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings" exhibit at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, April 13, 2003.

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• The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend He now dare trust.

  Joanna Baillie

  Dog, Men, Tyrants

  Joanna Baillie (1832). “The Complete Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie”, p.203

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• If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

  Lord Byron

  Fall, Tyrants, Gentleman

  Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.26, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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