Tyranny Quotes - Page 13

• all the small squalors of the body, known only to oneself, insignificant in youth, easily dismissed, in old age became dominant and entered into fulfilment of the tyranny they had always threatened.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Age, Body, Youth

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• Tyranny and anarchy are alike incompatible with freedom, security, and the enjoyment of opportunity.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Opportunity, Helping Others, People

  Jeane J. Kirkpatrick (1988). “Political and moral dimensions”, p.86, Transaction Publishers

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• History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, History, Body

  Thomas Jefferson (1774). “A summary view of the rights of British America: Set forth in some resolutions intended for the inspection of the present delegates of the people of Virginia, now in convention ...”, p.7

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• A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.

  Aristotle

  Kings, Tyrants, Lists

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". P. 825, 1922.

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• ... the public and the private worlds are inseparably connected ... the tyrannies and servilities of the one are the tyrannies and servilities of the other.

  Virginia Woolf

  World, Connected, Servility

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2851, Delphi Classics

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• What tyranny could exceed a tyranny that dictates to the human heart?

  June Jordan

  Heart, Sexuality, Humans

  June Jordan (2009). “Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays”, p.92, Basic Books

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• In my view dictators do not surrender. They have to be well and truly defeated.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Views, Dictator, Surrender

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• I would recommend a free commerce both of matter and mind. I would let men enter their own churches with the same freedom as their own houses; and I would do it without a homily or graciousness or favor, for tyranny itself is to me a word less odious than toleration.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Men, House, Mind

  Walter Savage Landor (1876). “Dialogues of sovereigns and statesmen”, p.90

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• It is harder to maintain the balance of freedom than it is to endure the weight of tyranny.

  Simon Bolivar

  Balance, Weight, Endure

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• The very name of a politician, a statesman, is sure to cause terror and hatred; it has always connected with it the ideas of treachery, cruelty, fraud, and tyranny.

  Edmund Burke

  Names, Ideas, Hatred

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.33, Delphi Classics

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• A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is torn to rags; the rest is entirely out of fashion.

  Edmund Burke

  Fashion, Rags, Furniture

  Edmund Burke (1834). “The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and Critical Introduction, and Portrait After Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.126

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• It is the nature of tyranny and rapacity never to learn moderation from the ill-success of first oppressions; on the contrary, all oppressors, all men thinking highly of the methods dictated by their nature, attribute the frustration of their desires to the want of sufficient rigor.

  Edmund Burke

  Frustration, Men, Thinking

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.381, Penguin

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• tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Injustice, Produce, Cunning

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works”, p.8

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• To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.

  Margaret Mead

  Hate, Love Is, Demand

  Margaret Mead, Margaret Mary Caffrey, Patricia A. Francis (2006). “To Cherish the Life of the World: Selected Letters of Margaret Mead”, p.122, Basic Books

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• the most sacred business of judges is not to ratify the will of the majority but to protect the minority from its tyranny.

  Anna Quindlen

  Justice, Judging, Majority

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• truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Truth, Firsts, Casualties

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• Where no individual in a community is denied his rights, the mass are the more perfectly protected in theirs; for whenever any class is subject to fraud or injustice, it shows that the spirit of tyranny is at work, and no one can tell where or how or when the infection will spread.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Rights, Class, Community

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Ann Dexter Gordon (1997). “The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: In the school of anti-slavery, 1840 to 1866”, p.410, Rutgers University Press

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• none can be Tyrants but Cowards.

  Mary Astell

  Tyrants, Coward

  Mary Astell (2002). “A Serious Proposal to the Ladies”, p.247, Broadview Press

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• Government began in tyranny and force, began in the feudalism of the soldier and bigotry of the priest; and the ideas of justice and humanity have been fighting their way, like a thunderstorm, against the organized selfishness of human nature.

  Wendell Phillips

  Fighting, Government, Ideas

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.14

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• The dictator is also the scapegoat; in assuming absolute authority, he assumes absolute guilt; and the oppressed masses, groaning under the yoke, know themselves to be innocent as lambs, while they pray hypocritically for deliverance.

  Mary McCarthy

  Guilt, Yoke, Lambs

  Mary McCarthy (1975). “The company she keeps”, Not Avail

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• Laughter takes the tyranny of the lies we are told and told and told and it blows them apart.

  Kate Clinton

  Laughter, Lying, Blow

  Kate Clinton (2012). “What the L?”, p.1979, Bywater Books

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• the greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one can argue, to whom one can represent grievances, on whom the pressures of power can be exerted. Bureaucracy is the form of government in which everybody is deprived of political freedom, of the power to act; for the rule by Nobody is not no-rule, and where all are equally powerless we have a tyranny without a tyrant.

  Hannah Arendt

  Government, Tyrants, Political

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• all social relations exist and grow in the human mind. That one despot can rule over a million other men rests absolutely on their state of mind. They believe that he does; let them change their minds, and he does not.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Believe, Men, Perception

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1904). “Human Work”, p.39, Rowman Altamira

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• The tyranny of distance is such an important element of policy and the allocation of resources.

  George Brandis

  Distance, Important, Elements

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• There is such a torture, happily unknown to ancient tyranny, as talking a man to death. Marcus Aurelius advises to assent readily to great talkers--in hopes, I suppose, to put an end to the argument.

  Laurence Sterne

  Men, Talking, Ancient

  Laurence Sterne (1790). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Complete in Eight Volumes”, p.130

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