A Quote by Walter Bagehot
You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
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To rail and rant against tyranny is to manifest inferiority, for there is no tyranny but ignorance; to be conscious of one's powers is to lose consciousness of tyranny. Self government is not a remote aim. It is an intimate and inescapable fact. To govern oneself is a natural imperative, and all tyranny is the miscarriage of self government. The first requisite of freedom is to accept responsibility for the lack of it.
The history of women is the history of 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.
No tyranny is more cruel than the one practised in the shadow of the laws and under color of justice - when, so to speak, one proceeds to drown the unfortunate on the very plank by which they had saved themselves. And since a tyrant never lacks instruments for his tyranny, Tiberius always found judges ready to condemn as many people as he might suspect.
The tyranny of majorities may be as bad as the tyranny of Kings.
Tyranny seldom announces itself...In fact, a tyranny may exist without an individual tyrant. A whole government, even a democratically elected one, may be tyrannical.
Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from whom it may.
Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth.
There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it.
Tyranny is tyranny, no matter what its form; the free man will resist it if his courage serves.
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
What tyranny could exceed a tyranny that dictates to the human heart?
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.
We gain nothing by trading the tyranny of capital for the tyranny of labor.
There is a worse tyranny than that of ill-treatment. It is the tyranny of tears, vapours, appeals to feelings of affection and of gratitude!
Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
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