#tyranny

Tyranny anywhere is a threat to freedom everywhere. ↗

— Alex Storozynski

#tyranny #age

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#individuality #liberty #tyranny #liberty

When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state. ↗

— Euripides

#deceit #deception #elections #evil #false-promises

There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#justice #law #name #perpetrated #shield

If tyranny and oppression come to this land it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. ↗

— James Madison

#patriot-act #tyranny #war #acting

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

#apart #far #never #tyranny

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

There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#day #defiance #enter #hour #lose

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny. ↗

— Dee Hock

#leadership #nothing #only #subordinates #then

A city which belongs to just one man is no true city ↗

— Sophocles

#tyranny #freedom