Tyranny Quotes

You've only got to see the children in the school or to see the people here to realize they have been liberated from a tyranny we can't even imagine the full extent of. - Tony Blair

You're watching a democratic political process evolving before your eyes in which Iraqis are now pulling together through political compromise, whereas in the era of Saddam Hussein it was coercion and tyranny that forced them to come together. - Sean McCormack

Your blessed gathering here is a challenge to the forces of evil and tyranny that want to destroy this country. - Ayad Allawi

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor. - Walter Bagehot

While we are under the tyranny of Priests [...] it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith. - Ethan Allen

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins. - John Locke

Where the law ends tyranny begins. - Henry Fielding

Where laws end, tyranny begins. - William Pitt The Elder

Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery. - Benjamin Disraeli

When you look at organized religion of whatever sort whether it's Christianity in all its variants, or whether it's Islam or some forms of extreme Hinduism wherever you see organized religion and priesthoods and power, you see cruelty and tyranny and repression. It's almost a universal law. - Philip Pullman