Best Tyranny Quotes

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

This country has a mental health problem disguised as a gun problem, and a tyranny problem disguised as a security problem.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.

Without the basis in written law, and without the basis in our Constitution ratified by the people, judges can’t make laws. And if we accept the notion that their dictates are law, then we have not only submitted to tyranny, we have abandoned a republican form of government.

Islam has always been a force that dispels tyrants and tyranny, opression and exploitaion. Islam has always been a force that militates for justice.

The tyranny of relativism is the spiritual poverty of our time

To say that we have to surrender to judicial supremacy is to do what Jefferson warned against, which is, in essence, surrender to judicial tyranny.

Our nation is founded on the principal that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny.

The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny.

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.

Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige others to obey you. Authority is the right to direct and command, to be listened to or obeyed by others. Authority requests power. Power without authority is tyranny.

This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

To disarm the people… was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.

Can any reasonable man be well disposed toward a government which makes war and carnage the only means of supporting itself?

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other.

The V sign is the symbol of the unconquerable will of the occupied territories, and a portent of the fate awaiting the Nazi tyranny.

And wherever men are fighting against barbarism, tyranny, and massacre, for freedom, law, and honour, let them remember that the fame of their deeds, even though they themselves be exterminated, may perhaps be celebrated as long as the world rolls round.

What is our policy? … to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime.

The salvation of the common people of every race and of every land from war or servitude must be established on solid foundations and must be guarded by the readiness of all men and women to die rather than submit to tyranny.

To achieve the extirpation of Nazi tyranny there are no lengths of violence to which we will not go.

For many years there have been treatments available which are successful and usually NOT harmful for diseases, such as AIDS, cancer, cystic fibrosis, diabetes, organ regeneration and other diseases. One by one these treatments and their creators or proponents have been targeted by the FDA, which I call the office of orthodoxy enforcement, illegally using just powers derived from the consent of governed. These forms of tyranny are always accompanied by multi agency intrusions or harassment, confiscation of private medical files, censorship of written materials and threats or prosecution.

The mission of the Gestapo expanded steadily as from 1933 onward, political criminality was given a much broader definition than ever before and more forms of dissent and criticism were gradually criminalized. The result was that more laws or law-like measures were put on the books than ever.

Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life that can be separated from the rest; it is the control of the means for all our ends.

It is difficult for me to talk about some of these things without reliving the extreme emotions and loss one always feels for the untimely deaths of acquaintances, family and friends, all because they stood up against the unlawful tyranny of non-Indian America.

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.