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| Förtryck kan bara överleva genom tystnad. | John Locke (1632-1704) |
| There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice. | Charles de Montesquieu (1689-1755) |
| Absolutism tempered by assassination | Count Munster |
| If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy | James Madison (1751-1836) |
| The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him; they crush those beneath them | Emily Bronte (1818-1848) |
| But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression | John Locke (1632-1704) |
| Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort. | Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) |
| No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. | Joseph Addison (1672-1719) |
| Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. | C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) |
| 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. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Tyranny is always better organized than freedom | Charles Pierre Péguy (1873-1914) |
| This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants | William Penn (1644-1718) |
| The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins | Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855) |
| The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves. | Edmund Burke (1729-1797) |
| Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. | Edmund Burke (1729-1797) |
| The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience | Albert Camus (1913-1960) |
| There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice. | Charles de Montesquieu (1689-1755) |
| No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. | J. Michael Straczynski (1954-) |
| There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them | François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) |
| The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home. | James Madison (1751-1836) |
| The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy | Charles de Montesquieu (1689-1755) |
| The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities | Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) |
| Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort. | Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) |
| There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war | Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) |
| He (Thomas Paine) saw oppression on every hand; injustice everywhere; hypocrisy at the altar; venality on the bench, tyranny on the throne; and with a splendid courage he espoused the cause of the weak against the strong | Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) |