A Quote by Arthur Balfour
The tyranny of majorities may be as bad as the tyranny of Kings.
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You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
Democracy is nothing but the Tyranny of Majorities, the most abominable tyranny of all, for it is not based on the authority of a religion, not upon the nobility of a race, not on the merits of talents and of riches. It merely rests upon numbers and hides behind the name of the people.
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.
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.
Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from whom it may.
There is no week, nor day, nor hour, when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their supreme confidence in themselves, and lose their roughness and spirit of defiance. Tyranny may always enter—there is no charm or bar against it.
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.
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
Tyranny is tyranny, no matter what its form; the free man will resist it if his courage serves.
Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
We gain nothing by trading the tyranny of capital for the tyranny of labor.
What tyranny could exceed a tyranny that dictates to the human heart?
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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