Tyranny - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[The closed door and the sealed lips are prerequisites to tyranny. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59990<![CDATA[Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59991<![CDATA[I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59992<![CDATA[Under conditions of tyranny, it is far easier to act than to think. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59983<![CDATA[There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59984<![CDATA[Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom--for himself. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59985<![CDATA[Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59986<![CDATA[Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59987<![CDATA[Tyranny and anarchy are never far asunder. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59988<![CDATA[Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59989<![CDATA[For what is he they follow? Truly, gentlemen, A bloody tyrant and a homicide; One raised in blood and ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59977<![CDATA[Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59978<![CDATA[You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59979<![CDATA[The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59980<![CDATA[The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59981<![CDATA[The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59982<![CDATA[O nation miserable, With an untitled tyrant bloody-sceptred, When shalt thou see thy wholesome days again, Since ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59973<![CDATA[This tyrant, whole sole name blisters our tongues, Was once thought honest; you have loved him well; He hath ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59974<![CDATA[But thou know'st this, 'Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59975<![CDATA[I knew him tyrannous; and tyrants' fears Decrease not, but grow faster than the years; And should he doubt ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59976<![CDATA[Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59967<![CDATA[What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear? [Lat., Quid violentius aure tyranni?] ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59968<![CDATA[It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59969<![CDATA[None but tyrants have any business to be afraid. [Fr., Fr., Il n'appartient, qu'aux tyrans d'etre toujours en crainte.] ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59970<![CDATA[His demand Springs not from Edward's well-meant honest love, Bur from deceit, bred by necessity; For how ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59971<![CDATA[Bleed, bleed, poor Country! Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure, For goodness dare not check thee; wear thou ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59972<![CDATA['Twixt kings and tyrans there's this difference known: Kings seek their subjects' good, tyrants their owne. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59966<![CDATA[Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice-- The weakness and ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59959<![CDATA[Tyranny Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem None rebels except subjects? The prince who ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59960<![CDATA[Is there no tyrant but the crowned one? [Fr., N'est-on jamais tyran qu'avec un diademe?] ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59961<![CDATA[Tyrant, step from the throne, and give place to thy master. [Fr., Tyran, descends du trone et fais place a ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59962<![CDATA[Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die. [Fr., Tremblez, tyrans, vous etes immortels.] ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59963<![CDATA[There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59964<![CDATA[I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59965<![CDATA[The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59953<![CDATA[A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59954<![CDATA[No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59955<![CDATA[The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59956<![CDATA[Th' oppressive, sturdy, man-destroying villains, Who ravag'd kingdoms, and laid empires waste, And in a cruel wantonness of power, ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59957<![CDATA[Tyranny Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights, Howe'er his own commence, can never be But ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59958<![CDATA[The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59946<![CDATA[This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59947<![CDATA[Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59948<![CDATA[The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59949<![CDATA[The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59950<![CDATA[When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them, ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59951<![CDATA[If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59952<![CDATA[Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59945<![CDATA[Any excuse will serve a tyrant. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47580<![CDATA[Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44721