Nero

“Hidden talent counts for nothing”. –Nero

J.G. Ballard

“Human beings today… are surrounded by huge institutions we can never penetrate: the City, the banking system, political advertising conglomerates, vast entertainment enterprises. They’ve made themselves user friendly, but they define the tastes to which we conform. They’re rather subtle, subservient tyrants, but no less sinister for that”. –J.G. Ballard

Diogenes

“The mob is the mother of tyrants”. –Diogenes

Barbara Tuchman

“Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed”. –Barbara Tuchman

Simon Bolivar

“A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay; its free government is transformed into tyranny; it disregards the principles which it should preserve, and finally degenerates into despotism”. –Simon Bolivar

Aristotle

“Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms”. –Aristotle

Charlton Heston

“Political correctness is tyranny with manners”. –Charlton Heston

Peter Kropotkin

“America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society”. –Peter Kropotkin

Jose Rizal

“The tyranny of some is only possible through the cowardice of others”. –Jose Rizal

James Madison

“If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy”. –James Madison