Tyranny Quotes

The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

The body is imaginary, and we bow to the tyranny of a phantom.

And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.

Give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves;

Churchill knew instinctively what was wrong with communism – that it repressed liberty; that it replaced individual discretion with state control; that it entailed the curtailment of democracy, and therefore that it was tyrannous.

So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

In short, of tyranny – and it is committed to making tyranny universal.