Top Tyranny Quotes
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 secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
Maximilien Robespierre
Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
Plato
The act of voting by ordinary Iraqis in the face of extreme danger confirms President Bush's belief that people around the globe, when given a chance, will choose liberty and democracy over enslavement and tyranny.
John Ensign
To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
Samuel Butler
Malcolm X 
Jim Gerlach 
Plato 
James H. Douglas 
Trent Lott All Tyranny Quotes
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 
91% of people like this quote
The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
Maximilien Robespierre
69% of people like this quote
The act of voting by ordinary Iraqis in the face of extreme danger confirms President Bush's belief that people around the globe, when given a chance, will choose liberty and democracy over enslavement and tyranny.
John Ensign
63% of people like this quote
To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
Samuel Butler
62% of people like this quote
Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
George Santayana
61% of people like this quote
Popular Tyranny Authors
George Bernard ShawThomas Jefferson VoltaireSamuel Butler PlatoBertrand RussellWilliam HazlittGeorge Santayana AeschylusEdmund BurkeDwight D. EisenhowerHenry MillerFranz KafkaPierre CorneilleAdlai E. Stevenson
Simone WeilWalt WhitmanJames MadisonThomas PaineC. S. LewisDavid HumeRon ChernowWalter Bagehot SocratesHannah ArendtNorman MailerHenry FieldingRobert A. HeinleinRandall TerryWilliam Godwin
More »