Those are serious questions of war and peace, of freedom or tyranny, whether or not there is ever going to be a hope of us instilling some democratic systems in a part of the world that frankly is breeding hate and destruction directed right at us.
Zach Wamp

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
Samuel Butler

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.
Simone Weil

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.
Pierre Corneille

Tyranny Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights, However his own commence, can never be But an usurper.
Henry Brooke

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.
Jeremy Bentham

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.
Charles Peguy

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
Plato

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.
Franz Kafka

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
George Santayana

Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny.
Gijs de Vries

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
Hannah Arendt

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.
William Pitt

We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny.
James H. Douglas

We don't consider the battle has ended in Afghanistan... The battle has begun and its fires are picking up. These fires will reach the White House, because it is the center of injustice and tyranny.
Mohammed Omar

We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense.
Andrew Coyle Bradley

What I find very interesting about the mutual funds managers is that here are people who are the new masters of the universe. They're managing billions, yet they're subject to this quiet daily tyranny of numbers.
Ron Chernow

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
Robert A. Heinlein

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
Thomas Jefferson

Where the law ends tyranny begins.
Henry Fielding