The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
Edmund Burke
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The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its ori...
BLAISE PASCAL Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the ...
JOHN PIERPONT MORGAN You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-d...
WALTER BAGEHOT You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next...
WALTER BAGEHOT You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-d...
WALTER BAGEHOT The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is th...
OSCAR WILDE The tyranny of majorities may be as bad as the tyranny of kings.
ARTHUR BALFOUR Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
SOCRATES Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Beauty is a short-lived tyranny
SOCRATES No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, an...
EDWARD ABBEY Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a m...
B. R. AMBEDKAR Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.
ROBERT HEINLEIN Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity--in short, of tyranny...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyrann...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.
AESCHYLUS The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
EDWARD ABBEY Corruption is just another form of tyranny.
JOE BIDEN Under tyranny it is right to be a rebel!
ROBERT FANNEY Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing.
LORD MOULTON Peace without justice is tyranny.
WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE Justice without mercy is tyranny
E'JéI OSBORNE Taxation without representation is tyranny.
JAMES OTIS Taxation without representation is tyranny
JAMES OTIS Beware the tyranny of the minority.
PROVERB Beware the tyranny of the minority.
LATIN PROVERB This is all about breaking the tyranny of distance.
MORRIS IEMMA A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.
CRYSTAL EASTMAN ...It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
VOLTAIRE Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly
PROVERB What we have in East Texas today in regards to gay rights is the tyranny of the majority. It is up t...
PATRICK FRANKLIN Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.
SETH GODIN Give up the tyranny of female charm.
ALBERT CAMUS Secrecy begets tyranny.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.
SOPHOCLES Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder t...
THOMAS PAINE The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in...
CLARENCE DARROW Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom--for himself.
ELBERT HUBBARD Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressiv...
C.S. LEWIS There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom
in the first and chiefest place, ...
EURIPIDES I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my
perfect right.
EURIPIDES No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each
other.
UNKNOWN A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the
profit of all, a tyrant only to plea...
UNKNOWN Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them
VOLTAIRE Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within
MAHATMA GANDHI This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
PLATO Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that
Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice--
The w...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Is there no tyrant but the crowned one?
[Fr., N'est-on jamais tyran qu'avec un diademe?]
ANDRE MARIE DE CHENIER Tyranny
Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights,
Howe'er his own commence, can never be...
HENRY BROOKE None but tyrants have any business to be afraid.
[Fr., Fr., Il n'appartient, qu'aux tyrans d'etre ...
HARDOUIN DE PEREFIXE The tyrant now
Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber
The watch-dog guards his couch, ...
JOANNA BAILLIE Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.
CORNELIUS NEPOS It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI (MACCHIAVELLI) What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear?
[Lat., Quid violentius aure tyranni?]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Th' oppressive, sturdy, man-destroying villains,
Who ravag'd kingdoms, and laid empires waste,
...
ROBERT BLAIR If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy
JAMES MADISON The closed door and the sealed lips are prerequisites to tyranny.
FRANK L. STANTON Tyranny and anarchy are never far asunder.
JEREMY RENTHAM Under conditions of tyranny, it is far easier to act than to think.
HANNAH ARENDT 'Twixt kings and tyrans there's this difference known:
Kings seek their subjects' good, tyrants th...
ROBERT HERRICK Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die.
[Fr., Tremblez, tyrans, vous etes immortels.]
JACQUES DELILLE (JAQUES DELISLE) Tyrant, step from the throne, and give place to thy master.
[Fr., Tyran, descends du trone et fais...
PIERRE CORNEILLE The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins
SOREN KIERKEGAARD For what is he they follow? Truly, gentlemen,
A bloody tyrant and a homicide;
One raised in b...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I knew him tyrannous; and tyrants' fears
Decrease not, but grow faster than the years;
And sho...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This tyrant, whole sole name blisters our tongues,
Was once thought honest; you have loved him wel...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O nation miserable,
With an untitled tyrant bloody-sceptred,
When shalt thou see thy wholesome...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE His demand
Springs not from Edward's well-meant honest love,
Bur from deceit, bred by necessit...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But thou know'st this,
'Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Bleed, bleed, poor Country!
Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure,
For goodness dare not chec...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming ...
MICHAEL JOHNS Tyranny
Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem
None rebels except subjects? The prince...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Men are still men. The despot's wickedness
Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,--
Co...
VICTOR HUGO I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation ...
GEORGE WALLACE The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
SOREN AABYE KIERKEGAARD We do not cower, we are coming after you -- whether you are a nation bent on tyranny, a terrorist gr...
TOM RIDGE Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may...
C.S. LEWIS A democracy thrives on diversity. Tyranny oppresses it.
SAM BROWNBACK Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
PLATO The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
LORD (JOHN EMERICH EDWARD DALBERG) ACTON Death is softer by far than tyranny.
AESCHYLUS Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.
CHARLES PEGUY Tyranny is always better organized than freedom
CHARLES PEGUY Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.
PIERRE CORNEILLE The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.
EDMUND BURKE Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
EDMUND BURKE I know all about the tyranny of women.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS In fact, our monthly trade deficit figure is so huge it equals the entire annual budget of our Depar...
MARCY KAPTUR I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any fie...
CHARLES EDISON We must end this tyranny of silence.
JAN EGELAND Where the law ends tyranny begins.
HENRY FIELDING A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN If the U.$. is truly a Christian nation, that doesn't speak well of Christianity
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EDMUND BURKE All government--indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every
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EDMUND BURKE Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the
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EDMUND BURKE No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of
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EDMUND BURKE We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
EDMUND BURKE Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
EDMUND BURKE The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the nece...
EDMUND BURKE I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.
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EDMUND BURKE Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.
EDMUND BURKE Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
EDMUND BURKE Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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EDMUND BURKE You can never plan the future by the past.
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EDMUND BURKE By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
EDMUND BURKE People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be...
EDMUND BURKE Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.
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EDMUND BURKE Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
EDMUND BURKE There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law...
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EDMUND BURKE To please universally was the object of his life; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and...
EDMUND BURKE It is undoubtedly the business of ministers very much to consult the inclinations of the people, but...
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EDMUND BURKE The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts.
EDMUND BURKE That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superio...
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EDMUND BURKE I did not obey your instructions. No. I conformed to the instructions of truth and Nature, and maint...
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EDMUND BURKE If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the p...
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EDMUND BURKE Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young men, and I will tell ...
EDMUND BURKE I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
EDMUND BURKE We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
EDMUND BURKE A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
EDMUND BURKE It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
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EDMUND BURKE Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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EDMUND BURKE Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
EDMUND BURKE No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
EDMUND BURKE Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, und...
EDMUND BURKE Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
EDMUND BURKE An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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EDMUND BURKE When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From ...
EDMUND BURKE Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
EDMUND BURKE They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
EDMUND BURKE Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partne...
EDMUND BURKE A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
EDMUND BURKE Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the educ...
EDMUND BURKE In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.
EDMUND BURKE Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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EDMUND BURKE To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
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EDMUND BURKE To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
EDMUND BURKE Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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EDMUND BURKE Good order is the foundation of all great things.
EDMUND BURKE The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.
EDMUND BURKE When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in th...
EDMUND BURKE If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
EDMUND BURKE What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
EDMUND BURKE Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
EDMUND BURKE Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
EDMUND BURKE And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the ha...
EDMUND BURKE In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army wil...
EDMUND BURKE It is from this absolute indifference and tranquillity of the mind, that mathematical speculations d...
EDMUND BURKE Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt o...
EDMUND BURKE Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upo...
EDMUND BURKE The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
EDMUND BURKE Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other
EDMUND BURKE Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
EDMUND BURKE Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in a...
EDMUND BURKE In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood;...
EDMUND BURKE A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.
EDMUND BURKE Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.
EDMUND BURKE He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helpe...
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EDMUND BURKE The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dom...
EDMUND BURKE Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.
EDMUND BURKE People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors.
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EDMUND BURKE Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
EDMUND BURKE The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion.
EDMUND BURKE The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it w...
EDMUND BURKE It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this gre...
EDMUND BURKE Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
EDMUND BURKE The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One canno...
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EDMUND BURKE Custom reconciles us to everything.
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EDMUND BURKE Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
EDMUND BURKE All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is fo...
EDMUND BURKE Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not
exclusive appropriation) given to birth, i...
EDMUND BURKE The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of
the most valuable and interesting ...
EDMUND BURKE People will not look forward to posterity, who never look
backward to their ancestors.
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yet hardened into the bone of manho...
EDMUND BURKE Young man, there is America--which at this day serves for little
more than to amuse you with storie...
EDMUND BURKE Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
EDMUND BURKE Chapter of accidents.
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ought to give us ground to presume ab...
EDMUND BURKE I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no
small one, in the real misfortunes and...
EDMUND BURKE The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ...
EDMUND BURKE It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.
EDMUND BURKE Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference which is, at least, half infidelity.
EDMUND BURKE A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the
world.
EDMUND BURKE That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.
EDMUND BURKE Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one
direction, have great influence on the pub...
EDMUND BURKE Resolved to die in the last dyke of prevarication.
EDMUND BURKE No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
EDMUND BURKE We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
EDMUND BURKE Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and
Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laught...
EDMUND BURKE It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law,
according to the golden mete-wand...
EDMUND BURKE The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.
EDMUND BURKE There is however a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a
virtue.
EDMUND BURKE Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it...
EDMUND BURKE Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair
EDMUND BURKE Turn over a new leaf.
EDMUND BURKE Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart
EDMUND BURKE But the concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
EDMUND BURKE Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
EDMUND BURKE What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
EDMUND BURKE The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience
to the will of the Sovereign of th...
EDMUND BURKE The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the
nurse of manly sentiment and heroic e...
EDMUND BURKE The men of England--the men, I mean of light and leading in
England.
EDMUND BURKE Calamity is man's true touchstone
EDMUND BURKE Illustrious Predecessor.
EDMUND BURKE Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no
other.
EDMUND BURKE A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends.
Cannot I say, as truly at least, ...
EDMUND BURKE When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will
fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifi...
EDMUND BURKE Falsehood is a perennial spring.
EDMUND BURKE All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for...
EDMUND BURKE All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.
EDMUND BURKE Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; i...
EDMUND BURKE Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
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EDMUND BURKE The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
EDMUND BURKE Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
EDMUND BURKE Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
EDMUND BURKE The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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EDMUND BURKE All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
EDMUND BURKE To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
EDMUND BURKE Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
EDMUND BURKE The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
EDMUND BURKE But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and ...
EDMUND BURKE The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please; we ought to see what it w...
EDMUND BURKE He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoder...
EDMUND BURKE Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
EDMUND BURKE