Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.
Charles Peguy
Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.
Pericles
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
Plato
Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.
Frederick William Robertson
It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about.
Pat Robertson
The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
Maximilien Robespierre
Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny, like with... →
Jon Ronson
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... →
Jonathan Sacks
Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
George Santayana