(147 quotes found)
“Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perpetually rejuvenated illusions.”
Albert Einstein
“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.”
C.S. Lewis
“The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.”
Voltaire
“Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.”
Thomas Jefferson
“The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins”
Soren Kierkegaard
“The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny”
Mark Twain
“Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder”
George Bernard Shaw
“The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.”
Oscar Wilde
“I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.”
Socrates
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