Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [21-40] of 689 Tyranny quotesTyranny QuotesTyranny Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope~ Aeschylus Any excuse will serve a tyrant.~ Aesop The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.~ Aesop While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again.~ Aesop We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.~ Aesop The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich We stand today at a crossroads: One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other leads to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to make the right choice.~ Woody Allen The invisible Money Power is working to control and enslave mankind. It financed Communism, Fascism, Marxism, Zionism and Socialism. All of these are directed to making the United States a member of World Government.~ American Mercury Magazine [O]ur sages in the great [constitutional] convention... intended our government should be a republic which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism. The rigours of a despotism often... oppress only a few, but it is the very essence and nature of a democracy, for a faction claiming to oppress a minority, and that minority the chief owners of the property and truest lovers of their country.~ Fisher Ames Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.~ Saint Thomas Aquinas We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.~ Gaius Petronius Arbiter No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.~ Hannah Arendt The wise learn many things from their enemies.~ Aristophanes Both Oligarch and Tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of arms.~ Aristotle A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious.~ Aristotle It is the greatest inequality to try to make unequal things equal.~ Aristotle The three aims of the tyrant are, one, the humiliation of his subjects; he knows that a mean-spirited man will not conspire against anybody; two, the creation of mistrust among them; for a tyrant is not to be overthrown until men begin to have confidence in one another -- and this is the reason why tyrants are at war with the good; they are under the idea that their power is endangered by them, not only because they will not be ruled despotically, but also because they are too loyal to one another and to other men, and do not inform against one another or against other men -- three, the tyrant desires that all his subjects shall be incapable of action, for no one attempts what is impossible and they will not attempt to overthrow a tyranny if they are powerless.~ Aristotle It is a part of the function of “law” to give recognition to ideas representing the exact opposite of established conduct. Most of the complications arise from the necessity of pretending to do one thing, while actually doing another.~ Thurman Arnold Politically popular speech has always been protected: even the Jews were free to say ‘Heil Hitler.’~ Isaac Asimov What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.~ Margot Asquith Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print