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Tyranny Quotes

"Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds."
Ezra Pound
"Under conditions of tyranny, it is far easier to act than to think."
Hannah Arendt
"The greatest tyrannies are always perpetrated in the name of the noblest causes"
Thomas Paine
"Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called."
John Stuart Mill
"I believe that there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations "
James Madison
"One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny"
Bertrand Russell
"Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent"
Thomas Paine
"Any excuse will serve a tyrant"
Aesop
"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. "
James Madison
"Ignorance and obscurantism have never produced anything other than flocks of slaves for tyranny"
Emiliano Zapata
"Secrets silent stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts secrets weary of their tyranny tyrants willing to be dethroned"
James Joyce
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