#tyrannical

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#justice #powerless #tyrannical #without

There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife. ↗

— Stephen Spender

#critic #criticism #justice #like #midwife

The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical. ↗

— Henry George

#alone #destructive #methods #necessarily #one act

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged. ↗

— Herman Melville

#dying #evermore #fellows #indulged #little

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all. ↗

— Maximilien Robespierre

#essentially #inalienable #law #man #rights

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#compel #funds #furnish #ideas #man

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#arise #because #body #enact #execute

You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it to the page. The page is jealous and tyrannical; the page is made of time and matter; the page always wins. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#any #jealous #made #matter #page

The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised. ↗

— John C. Calhoun

#checked #devised #efficiently #government #instead

The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence. ↗

— Mary Astell

#greatest #insolence #most #people #power