381 Quotes About Tyranny

I was immediately worn out by the tyranny of prescriptive joy.

Weak men cannot handle power. It will either crush them, or they will use it to crush others

Tyranny anywhere is a threat to freedom everywhere.

Our forefathers were heroes. But why were they heroes? Because they fought for democracy. They fought for the life and liberty of the Filipino people. They fought for our independence, our freedom. They fought against tyranny, totalitarianism, and dictatorship. They fought for us and that is something we must be grateful for.

This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.

Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.

Hurricanes couldn’t remove you from my mind. You’re my world and I’m incapable of not loving you.

A tyrant's power does not emanate from themselves, but the from the subservience of the people around them.

We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.