Any excuse will serve a tyrant. - Aesop
Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige others to obey you. Authority is the right to direct and command, to be listened to or obeyed by others. Authority requests power. Power without authority is tyranny. - Jacques Maritain
Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back! - J. K. Rowling
In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend. - Aeschylus
It is, in fact, far easier to act under conditions of tyranny than it is to think. - Hannah Arendt
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. - William Pitt
Of all the tyrannies on human kind, the worst is that which persecutes the mind. - John Dryden
The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness.... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. - Plato
The right of a nation to kill a tyrant, in cases of necessity, can no more be doubted, than to hang a robber, or kill a flea. But killing one tyrant only makes way for worse, unless the people have sense, spirit and honesty enough to establish and support a constitution guarded at all points against the tyranny of the one, the few, and the many. - John Adams
The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth. - Bill Clinton
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. - Thomas Jefferson
The tyranny that now exists is actual. That which may exist in the future is potential. If we are always to draw back from change with the thought that the change may be for the worse, then there is no hope at all of ever escaping injustice. - Isaac Asimov
The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny. - Aesop
Tyranny has no need of arts or sciences, for its policy, which is very shallow and without any refinement, only consists in shedding blood. - Jean de la Bruyere
Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from whom it may. - Howard Zinn
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. - Plato
When you fight a war against a tyrant, who do you kill? You kill the victims of the tyrant. - Howard Zinn
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