B. F. Skinner Quotes

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

I admit that what you have just heard might be for the welfare of the country, were it not that the presence of despotism are always dangerous.

... a step in the direction of tyranny.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.

... the perfect dictatorship.

An oppressive government is worse than a man-eating tiger.

… the mortal enemy of liberty

A dictator keeps control and leads. A tyrant is someone selfish who destroys.

When liberty becomes license, some form of one-man power is not far distant.

Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.

The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.

I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.

Despotism is a long crime.

It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.

Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.

Napoleon is a dangerous man in a free country. He seems tome to have the makings of a tyrant, and I believe that were he to be king he would be fully capable of playing such a part, and his name would become an object of detestation to posterity...

They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers … call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.

In all tyrannical governments the supreme magistracy, or the right both of making and of enforcing the laws, is vested in one and the same man, or one and the same body of men; and whenever these two powers are united together, there can be no public liberty.

Starting from unlimited freedom, I conclude with unlimited despotism.