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The mob has many heads but no brains.
-English Proverb
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No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
-Edward Abbey
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Death is softer by far than tyranny.
-Aeschylus
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In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
-Aeschylus
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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
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With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.
-Antonin Artaud
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So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism -- despotism during the campaign -- is indispensable.
-Walter Bagehot
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The tyranny of majorities may be as bad as the tyranny of kings.
-Arthur Balfour
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Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.
-Jeremy Bentham
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Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
-Edward L. Bernays
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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
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The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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No totalitarians, no wars, no fears, famines or perils of any kind can really break a man's spirit until he breaks it himself by surrendering. Tyranny has many dread powers, but not the power to rule the spirit.
-Edgar Sheffield Brightman
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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
-Emily Bronte
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
-Edmund Burke
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Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
-Edmund Burke
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
-Edmund Burke
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Are we aware of our obligations to a mob? It is the mob that labor in your fields and serve in your houses -- that man your navy, and recruit your army -- that have enabled you to defy the world, and can also defy you when neglect and calamity have driven them to despair. You may call the people a mob; but do not forget that a mob too often speaks the sentiments of the people.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.
-Albert Camus
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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
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Disregard for human beings is the first qualification of a dictator.
-Milton S. Eisenhower
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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
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The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its whole constitution. It persecutes a principle; it would whip a right; it would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have these. It resembles the prank of boys, who run with fire-engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Some punishment seems preparing for a people who are ungratefully abusing the best constitution and the best King any nation was ever blessed with, intent on nothing but luxury, licentiousness, power, places, pensions, and plunder; while the ministry, divided in their counsels, with little regard for each other, worried by perpetual oppositions, in continual apprehension of changes, intent on securing popularity in case they should lose favor, have for some years past had little time or inclination to attend to our small affairs, whose remoteness makes them appear even smaller.
-Benjamin Franklin
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Books about Tyranny
