Oppressive Rule Quotes

Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual. Reality always creeps in--the reality of our helplessness and our mortality; the reality that, despite our reach for the stars, a creaturely fate awaits us.

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

Those who exercise power always arrange matters so as to give their tyranny the appearance of justice.

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.

All those against the revolution must disappear and quickly be executed.

The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.

The government assures the people that they are in danger from the invasion of another nation, or from foes in their midst, and that the only way to escape this danger is by the slavish obedience of the people to their government. This fact is seen most prominently during revolutions and dictatorships, but it exists always and everywhere that the power of the government exists.

Let them hate me, so long as they fear me.

The Americans will have no interest contrary to the grandeur and glory of England, when they are not oppressed by the weight of it …

They subjugate first, if the weaker peoples will stand for it; then exploit, and if they will not stand for SUBJUGATION nor EXPLOITATION, the other recourse is EXTERMINATION.

Bolshevism is the other end of Czarism.

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

If ever anarchy is triumphant, it’s triumph will last for but one red moment, to be succeeded for ages by the gloomy night of despotism.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

One Hundred and Seventy Three Despots would surely be as oppressive as one.

O! Desolated Scotland, too credulous of fair speeches, and not aware of the calamities which are coming upon you! If you were to judge as I do, you would not easily put your neck under a foreign yoke.

By giving the government unlimited powers, the most arbitrary rule can be made legal; and in this way a democracy may set up the most complete despotism imaginable.

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.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy, and is captured by the shoemaker whom the mercenaries and millionaires make into a king. The people invent their oppressors, and the oppressors serve the function for which they are invented.

Equating brutality and despotism with leadership is not an American value.

Conquerors never, never conquer a nation to bring freedom. They brought control.

Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world.