Top 162 Tyrannical Quotes & Sayings

The Second Amendment is not about hunting. It is about protecting ourselves from a tyrannical government.

Democracy is a kingless regime infested by many kings who are sometimes more exclusive, tyrannical and destructive than one, even if he be a tyrant.

Simply because the nanny-state wants to hug you doesn't mean it's not tyrannical if you don't want to be hugged.

Environmental degradation is one of the biggest challenges we have. I think a question that we're not asking ourselves is: 'Isn't humanity committing suicide with this indiscriminate and tyrannical use of nature?'

The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.

It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is...

Legislatures have no right to set up an inquisition and examine into the private opinions of men. Test-laws are useless and ineffectual, unjust and tyrannical.

The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.

Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression.

My God, these Feeling types! ... Sensitive people are just tyrannical people - everybody else has to adapt to them.

There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

If the government decides to become a tyrannical government, our guns are to protect us against that.

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline, you've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space that you've just got to turn away all the peripherals.

It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.

Israel is a lighthouse and the only democracy in a dark and tyrannical region. It's part of us, of our European identity.

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.

When a nation has allowed itself to fall under a tyrannical regime, it cannot be absolved from the faults due to the guilt of that regime.

[A] mere demarcation on parchment of the constitutional limits of the several departments is not a sufficient guard against those encroachments which lead to a tyrannical concentration of all the powers of government in the same hands.

Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots.

I think the adverb is a much-maligned part of speech. It's always accused of being oppressive, even tyrannical, when in fact it's so supple and sly.

The ideal citizen of a tyrannical state is the man or woman who bows in silent obedience in exchange for the status of a well-cared-for herd animal. Thinking people become the tyrants' worst enemies.

There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into when it comes to music.

Unfortunately, writing and reporting the truth is not allowed under Castro's tyrannical dictatorship

Unfortunately, writing and reporting the truth is not allowed under Castro's tyrannical dictatorship.

Just as the children of Israel were directed by God to depart from the land of their oppression with its tyrannical monarch, cross a great sea, and establish a new nation, so, too, the children of Great Britain were led by God to leave the land of their religious oppression, cross a great ocean, inhabit a promised land, and, eventually, resist a "tyrannical" George III and create a new nation in "God's American Israel."

There are, however, some potentates I would kill by any and all means at my disposal. They are Ignorance, Superstition, and Bigotry — the most sinister and tyrannical rulers on earth.

The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.

Government has hardened into a tyrannical monopoly, and the human race in general becomes as absolutely property as beasts in the plow.

What we need is a political and joyous alternative to the behaviorist discourse, the Christian discourse on evil or sin, and the convergence of the two in forms of gender policing that [is] tyrannical and destructive.

The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe which serve to support tyrannical governments are not the Christian religion but abuses and corruptions of it.

It [childbearing] was never intended to be as time-consuming and self-conscious a process as it is. One of the deepest evils in our society is tyrannical nurturance.

The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.

I think the adverb is a much-maligned part of speech. Its always accused of being oppressive, even tyrannical, when in fact its so supple and sly.

Intellectual and cultural freedom is the most important single precondition for the breakdown of the kinds of tyrannical and totalitarian systems that periodically threaten us.

Never give up! it is wiser and betterAlways to hope, than once to despair.Fling off the load of Doubt's cankering fetter,And break the dark spell of tyrannical care.

I think forcing people to uncover their head is as tyrannical as forcing them to cover it.

There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.

Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution.

Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever.

The militia had the same equipment as the military to protect them against the tyrannical government. It's more important today than ever that we uphold our Second Amendment.

Seek justice from tyrannical governments not with your hat in your hands but with a rifle in your fist.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don't mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That's not power. That's just corruption.

Government is at best a petulant servant and at worst a tyrannical master.

Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.

Growing up in Pakistan in the 1980s, I lived in the shadow of a tyrannical state.

I felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd; I would never take the consequences of interfering with it.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

If you feel driven to feed the poor, get your checkbook out and keep your tyrannical mouth shut about it.

As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.

The Second Amendment is the right to keep and bear arms for our citizenryThis is for usThis is for us when our government becomes tyrannical

Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable... they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight!

Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.

Is there any chance you'd overthrow the tyrannical Beast Lord and his psychotic consort?" "Yeah, I want a vacation." -Kate & Curran to Jim

[With my photographs] you have a [single, forever fixed] moment and my particular angle of vision. My tyrannical condition, as it were, is that I prescribe your vision.

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.

There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space, that you've got to burn away all the peripherals.

So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature.

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn away all the peripherals.