Tyranny Quotes

When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty. - Thomas Jefferson

When people talk to me about tyranny, it makes me laugh and gives me the impression that people suffer from amnesia. - Jean Claude Duvalier

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. - Robert A. Heinlein

What reasonable man would not chouse to be freed from such tyranny and impositions. - Nathaniel Smith

What I find very interesting about the mutual funds managers is that here are people who are the new masters of the universe. They're managing billions, yet they're subject to this quiet daily tyranny of numbers. - Ron Chernow

We realize that at the end of the day the majority can railroad this and use brute force, use the tyranny of numbers. - Roilo Golez

We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of loss, and the more wearing, continuous pain of frustration and failure; and have had moods of unlooked-for release and peace. They have known and watched in themselves and others. - Elizabeth Drew

We must end this tyranny of silence. - Jan Egeland