#tyra

For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#capitalism #chains #class #crush #emancipate

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them. ↗

— Emily Bronte

#beneath #crush #down #grinds #him

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#foothold #gain #good #needs #people

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#policy #principle #rebels #subjects #tyrants

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#multitude #tyranny

Tyrants seldom want pretexts. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#seldom #tyrants #want

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver. ↗

— Lord Byron

#been #bred #business #butcher #cleaver

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#break #establish #great #great minds #intellectual

Peace without justice is tyranny. ↗

— William Allen White

#peace #tyranny #without

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#bad #crushes #deplore #kills #loss