tyranny Quotes

“The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.”

― Aesop, Aesop's Fables

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“The object of power is power.”

― George Orwell, 1984

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“It is our belief that the state is the servant of the citizen and not his master.”

― John F. Kennedy, State of the Union Address

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“Tyranny, as I was saying, is monarchy exercising the rule of a master over the political society; oligarchy is when men of property have the government in their hands; democracy, the opposite, when the indigent, and not the men of property, are...”

― Aristotle, Politics

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“A State for one man is no State at all.”

― Sophocles, Antigone

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“And so tyranny naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme form of liberty?”

― Plato, The Republic

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“Oh, God, the terrible tyranny of the majority.”

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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“Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.”

― Anatole France, Penguin Island

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“To tyrannize for the country is to tyrannize over the country.”

― Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World

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“Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are all embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.”

― Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays

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