Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it's how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.
No government can be strong and flourishing while the national character is weak and degraded. A government must flourish and decay with its subjects; and, when a prince makes a law or performs an action which has a tendency to injure the character or prosperity of the nation, he injures himself.
A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.
There's a certain amount of tyranny in all of us to some extent, and in some people it's much more developed than in others. It's a different balance which makes us all different.
Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.
There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.
Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government.
Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.