381 Quotes About Tyranny

Where there is no revolution, there is no progress, where there is no progress, there is no difference between human life and animal life.

Zealots, ideologues, and tyrants are usually the people who feel that free speech is dangerous because it challenges their power.

For indeed none can love freedom heartily, but good men: the rest love not freedom, but license: which never hath more scope, or more indulgence than under tyrants...consequently neither do bad men hate tyrants, but have always been readiest with falsified names of Loyalty and Obedience to color over their base compliance.

It only takes one fox to destroy an entire hen house.

Criticism must think of itself as life-enhancing and constitutively opposed to every form of tyranny, domination, and abuse; its social goals are non-coercive knowledge produced in the interest of human freedom

In a world, slowly but consistently morphing into a well structured global tyranny, it is preferable to have questions one cannot answer; than to have answers that one cannot question.

Power swells the head and shatters the crown.

Where dwelt fear, there could be no shred of freedom.

All tyrannies operate through fear. Throughout history, the men and women who have advanced the cause of freedom are those who were not afraid.