暴ぼうを以もって暴ぼうに易かう

expression, nidan verb (lower class) with 'hu/fu' ending (archaic)

replace one tyranny with another; use violence against violence

Archaic expression from classical Chinese; used to describe a situation where a new regime or force is just as oppressive as the one it replaced. Rare in modern Japanese outside of literary or historical contexts.

• 「暴ぼうを以もって暴ぼうに易かう」という言こと葉ばは、革かく命めいが結けっ局きょく同おなじ圧あっ政せいを生うむことを戒いましめている。

  The phrase 'replace one tyranny with another' warns that a revolution may end up producing the same oppression.