Tyranny Quotes

13 quotations about Tyranny
Death is softer by far than tyranny.
Aeschylus · Tyranny
In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
Aeschylus · Tyranny
Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.
Jeremy Bentham · Tyranny
The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors.
Napoleon Bonaparte · Tyranny
The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
Emily Bronte · Tyranny
Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
Edmund Burke · Tyranny
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
Edmund Burke · Tyranny
Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.
Thomas Jefferson · Tyranny
A police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow.
John F. Kennedy · Tyranny
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
Soren Kierkegaard · Tyranny
Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing.
Lord Moulton · Tyranny
Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.
Charles Peguy · Tyranny
Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
Alexander Pope · Tyranny

Authors on Tyranny

Aeschylus Jeremy Bentham Napoleon Bonaparte Emily Bronte Edmund Burke Thomas Jefferson John F. Kennedy Soren Kierkegaard Lord Moulton Charles Peguy Alexander Pope