Tyranny quotes
19 tyranny quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines“Historically, art and music and writing and film have been one of the only tools that is effective against tyranny.”
- From the movie: xXx: Return of Xander Cage
“- Jane Marke: Your country needs you, Mr. Cage. The Triple-X program needs you. It's time to be a patriot.
- Xander Cage: By whose definition? The last time I was patriotic, I got three strikes. And there was only one man who believed in the underdog. Patriotism is dead. There's only rebels and tyrants now.
- Jane Marke: So, which are you?
-...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Now, Voyager
“Dr. Jaquith says that tyranny is sometimes expression of the maternal instinct. If that's a mother's love, I want no part of it.”
“Political correctness is tyranny with manners.”
- From the movie: Zorro, the Gay Blade
“- Esteban: Do you wish for a blindfold?
- Charlotte Taylor Wilson: No. The eyes of freedom will always see through the blindfolds of tyranny. And the bonds of oppression will always be broken with muscles of liberty.” - From the movie: The Mule
“Are you sure you're Mexican? You're acting like you're under The Fuhrer or something.”
- From the movie: The Cheap Detective
- From the movie: The Man in the Iron Mask
“So they don't like the salt tax? Double it!”
- From the movie: Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
“- Bill: It is indeed a pleasure to introduce to you a gentleman we picked up in medieval Mongolia in the year 1269.
- Ted: Please welcome, the very excellent barbarian...
- Ted, Bill: ...Mr. Genghis Khan!
- Ted: This is a dude who, 700 years ago, totally ravaged China, and who, we were told, 2 hours ago, totally ravaged Oshman's Sporting Goods.” - From the movie: Rambo
- From the movie: Anna Karenina
“I told my son you were dead. Why do you make me out a tyrant who intervenes between him and you?”
- From the movie: This Land Is Mine
“The law has the right to forbid only those things that are harmful to society. I must go. I must go, not because I'm harmful to society - which is you - but I am harmful to tyranny.”
- From the movie: Man of the Year
“Even in the face of tyranny, there is comedy.”
- From the movie: Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
“- Rufus: Greetings, my excellent friends.
- Ted: Do you know when the Mongols ruled China?
- Rufus: Well... Perhaps we can ask them.” - From the movie: Harry's War
- From the movie: Harry's War
“I'm challenging the right of the IRS to destroy people, people like Beverly Paine. The God that gave us life gave us liberty at the same time. I think that most of you people will understand what I'm doing today. It's time to keep those liberties alive. I declare war on the IRS, and all the little men who have become their tyrants.”
- From the movie: Mutiny on the Bounty
“I don't try to justify his crime, his mutiny, but I condemn the tyranny that drove him to it.”
- From the movie: Danton
“They no longer see men around them but only speculators, villains and traitors. In the name of revolutionary principles, they have forgotten the Revolution! They've established a new dictatorship worse than the old. Fearing the return of tyrants, they've become tyrants themselves!”
- From the movie: Mrs. Miniver
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