Tyrannies Quotes
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Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.
— Sydney Smith
But even quashed rebellions leave us different. Because freedom may be a forbidden fruit in tyrannies, but once tasted, it is unforgettable.
— Justina Chen
Teach by teaching, not by correcting
— Maria Montessori
Tyrannies have long lists of rights. What they do not have is structural restraints on the power of government.
— Antonin Scalia
The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.
— Pete Townshend
Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Inheritance Tax; - it is, broadly speaking; a voluntary levy paid by those who distrust their heirs more than they dislike the Inland Revenue
— Roy Jenkins
In past history popularly elected governments have been no better and sometimes far worse than overt tyrannies.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Of all the tyrannies which have usurped power over humanity, few have been able to enslave the mind and body as imperiously as drug addiction.
— Freda Adler
Tyrannies are overthrown by ideas. Armies are defeated by ideas. Nations, and Time itself, are overmatched by ideas.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
— Honore De Balzac
The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies.
— Noam Chomsky
All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.
— George Orwell
The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late
— G.K. Chesterton
I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.
— Madeleine Albright
Only tyrannies understand the power of art.
— Ronald Harwood