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Tyranny Quotes
DemocracyDictatorshipExtremismLibertyTyranny Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
CensorshipDangerPowerSurveillanceTyranny As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
CorruptionJusticeSovereigntyTyranny In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
AuthorityBalanceFairnessHarmonyTyranny Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
CorruptionErosion of DemocracyManipulationPower AbuseTyranny However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
EqualityFreedomGood IntentionsOppressionTyranny Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
DespotismFactionalismRevengeTyranny The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.
CapitalismFortunateLibertyTyrannyUnfortunate Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
GovernmentLibertyMilitaryRepublicanismTyranny Overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty.
American PowerEthical DiplomacyGlobal ResponsibilityInterventionTyranny I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.
AbuseLibertyPowerTyranny Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
DemocracyTyrannyWar A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
Authority MisuseDomestic GovernanceJustificationPower DynamicsTyranny A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
ConscienceInactionPower DynamicsSilenceTyranny All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
FreedomPerseverancePoliticsTyranny 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.
HonorModerationResistanceTyrannyVirtue Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
DeceptionExploitationManipulationPower DynamicsTyranny The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
