Tyranny

The mob has many heads but no brains. – English Proverb

No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets. – Edward Abbey

Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within. – Hannah Arendt

With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows. – Antonin Artaud

The tyranny of majorities may be as bad as the tyranny of kings. – Arthur Balfour

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart. – Jeremy Bentham

No nation, no matter how enlightened, can endure criminal violence. If we cannot control it, we are admitting to the world and to ourselves that our laws are no more than a facade that crumbles when the winds of crisis rise. – Alan Biole

The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors. – Napoleon Bonaparte

No totalitarians, no wars, no fears, famines or perils of any kind can really break a mans spirit until he breaks it himself by surrendering. Tyranny has many dread powers, but not the power to rule the spirit. – Edgar Sheffield Brightman

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they dont turn against him, they crush those beneath them. – Emily Bronte

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny. – Edmund Burke

Tyrants seldom want pretexts. – Edmund Burke

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle. – Edmund Burke

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves. – Albert Camus

The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid. – Denis Diderot

Disregard for human beings is the first qualification of a dictator. – Milton S. Eisenhower

Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot