The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
We will oppose and resist tyranny as we will defeat evil.
The evils that arise to us from the structure of the material universe are neither trivial nor few, yet the history of political society sufficiently shows that man is, of all other beings, the most formidable enemy to man.
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed to serve the despot is the bitterest, the saddest matter of history; it is the saddest sight in our own day.
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
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