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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause. Alexander Pope Tyranny 537
The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts. Oscar Wilde Tyranny 176
Dictators never invent their own opportunities. Richard Buckminster Fuller Tyranny 174
Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart. Jeremy Bentham Tyranny 171
The mob has many heads but no brains. English Proverbs Tyranny 141
It is time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss. William Shakespeare Tyranny 140
Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, but leech-like to their fainting country cling, till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow, -- a people starved and stabbed in the untilled field... Percy Bysshe Shelley Tyranny 131
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship. George Orwell Tyranny 128
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. Soren Kierkegaard Tyranny 122
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice. Montesquieu Tyranny 121
Tyranny is always better organized than freedom. Charles Peguy Tyranny 110
A tyrant is the worst disease, and the cause of all others. William Blake Tyranny 90
Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man. Joseph De Maistre Tyranny 86
The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors. Napoleon Bonaparte Tyranny 85
I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. Thomas Jefferson Tyranny 80
A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and a mask on his face. Lyndon B. Johnson Tyranny 78
Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing. Lord Moulton Tyranny 76
The tyranny of majorities may be as bad as the tyranny of kings. Arthur Balfour Tyranny 72
No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government. Samuel Johnson Tyranny 71
Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. Thomas Jefferson Tyranny 69
Tyrants seldom want pretexts. Edmund Burke Tyranny 67
Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oscar Wilde Tyranny 67
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 Tyranny 66
Disregard for human beings is the first qualification of a dictator. Milton S. Eisenhower Tyranny 65
With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows. Antonin Artaud Tyranny 64
Dictators always look good until the last minutes. Tomas G. Masaryk Tyranny 63
One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves. Albert Camus Tyranny 63
The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. Plato Tyranny 62
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. Plato Tyranny 61
Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy. Oscar Wilde Tyranny 57
The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible. George Washington Tyranny 57
The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters. Rush Limbaugh Tyranny 56
Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual. TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot Tyranny 56
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets. Edward Abbey Tyranny 55
Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But this unnatural power corrupts both the heart and the understanding. Edmund Burke Tyranny 52
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle. Edmund Burke Tyranny 47
The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. James Madison Tyranny 45
A police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Tyranny 40
If we resort to lawlessness, the only thing we can hope for is civil war, untold bloodshed, and the end of our dreams. Archie Lee Moore Tyranny 36
The only successful revolution of this century is totalitarianism. BernardHenri Levy Tyranny 32
There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance. Walt Whitman Tyranny 30
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny. Edmund Burke Tyranny 28
No nation, no matter how enlightened, can endure criminal violence. If we cannot control it, we are admitting to the world and to ourselves that our laws are no more than a facade that crumbles when the winds of crisis rise. Alan Biole Tyranny 22
A dictatorship is a country where they have taken the politics out of the politics. Samuel Himmel Tyranny 20

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