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The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.
— Christopher Hitchens
The doctrines of despair, of spiritual or political tyranny or servitude, were never taught by such as shared the serenity of nature.
— Henry David Thoreau
Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere.
— Stephane Hessel
The willing sacrifice of the innocents is the most powerful retort to insolent tyranny that has yet to be conceived by God or man.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Death is a softer thing by far than tyranny.
— Aeschylus
A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself.
— Albert Einstein
ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.
— Ambrose Bierce
A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.
— George Bernard Shaw
Every tyranny imaginable is possible when prefaced by the notion that it is for the well-being of the populace.
— Steven Erikson
Ego trips by coteries of self-exalting people are treated in the media as idealism, rather than the petty tyranny it is.
— Thomas Sowell
Had not almost every man suffered by the Press, or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason for complaint.
— Thomas Browne
All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.
— Anna Brownell Jameson
The miracle of compounding returns is overwhelmed by the tyranny of compounding costs.
— John C. Bogle
Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions.
— Albert Einstein
I will not be governed by the tyranny of immediacy.
— Mary Anne Radmacher
In a land of freedom we are held hostage by the tyranny of political correctness.
— Robert Griffin III
Trapped and tormented by your own wishes. I knew intimately how that felt; I was often strangled by the tyranny of my desires.
— S. Jae-Jones
A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.
— Crystal Eastman
Everything is mended by the soil.
— Andrew Crofts
Outrageous ... that wilfully selfish tyranny of silence evolved by a crafty old ostrich of a world for its own well-being and comfort.
— Radclyffe Hall
In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people.
— Robert Peel
Democracy is a kingless regime infested by many kings who are sometimes more exclusive, tyrannical and destructive than one, even if he be a tyrant.
— Benito Mussolini
Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by one.
— Andrew Johnson
Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.
— William Godwin
This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.
— George Orwell
We gain nothing by trading the tyranny of capital for the tyranny of labor.
— Louis D. Brandeis
It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.
— Henry Miller
Death is softer by far than tyranny.
— Aeschylus
Aristocracy is kept up by family tyranny and injustice.
— Thomas Paine
Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.
— John Milton
Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires rush by their own weight.
— John Armstrong
He was ruled by the tyranny of instinct, by passion and the instant legislation of a simple heart.
— Pat Conroy
We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny.
— James H. Douglas Jr.
Tyranny is the wolf cast by the shadows of sheep.
— Stefan Molyneux