(207 quotes found)
“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.”
C.S. Lewis
“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to = remain silent.”
“Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perpetually rejuvenated illusions.”
Albert Einstein
“Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.”
“Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them”
Voltaire
“The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny”
Mark Twain
“The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.”
“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
“Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder”
George Bernard Shaw
