Quotes about tyrant
tyrants humanity tails
The slaves of today will become the tyrants of tomorrow--the proletariat overthrows the hegemon to become the hegemon itself, only to be eventually overthrown by a proto-hegemon that will in turn lose its position. It is this dizzying cycle that keeps humanity chasing the tail it lost millennia ago Miguel Syjuco
tyrants return torment
Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us. Emily Bronte
tyrants idealism-and-realism despots
Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. Mikhail Bakunin
tyrants government may
Tyranny seldom announces itself...In fact, a tyranny may exist without an individual tyrant. A whole government, even a democratically elected one, may be tyrannical. Joseph Sobran
tyrants warning regimes
Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes. Paul Wolfowitz
tyrants congress-and-the-president hatred
To imitate the hatred and violence of tyrants and murderers is the best way to take their place. Pope Francis
tyrants dust justice
When we have but the will to do it, that very moment will Justice be done: that very instant the tyrants of the Earth shall bite the dust. Peter Kropotkin
tyrants ideas perfection
The idea of perfection can be a tyrant you should overthrow, to gain your freedom. Kate Grenville
tyrants suffering ifs
If Obama's a tyrant, he's a pretty tame tyrant. How many tyrants do you know that really suffer because they can't get cloture? Jon Stewart
tyrants light political
Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere. James Madison
tyrants people democracy
Democracy was the right of the people to choose their own tyrant.
tyrants rallying-cry liberty
Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.
tyrants evil liberty
The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it. John Hay
tyrants people liberty
Today the primary threat to the liberties of the American people comes not from communism, foreign tyrants or dictators. It comes from the tendency on our own shores to centralize power, to trust bureaucracies rather than people. George Allen
tyrants self suffering
My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible. Mahatma Gandhi
tyrants taxation-without-representation tyranny
Taxation without representation is tyranny. James Otis
tyrants may murder
Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.
tyrants opponents want
It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed. Helen Dunmore
tyrants two firsts
There are two kinds of rebellion. The first is one in which the slave demands something that the tyrant has got. The second is one in which he demands something that the tyrant has not got. Gilbert K. Chesterton
tyrants mind
Thou tyrant, tyrant Jealousy, Thou tyrant of the mind! John Dryden
tyrants house tyranny
Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch. John le Carre
tyrants people promise
Neither can oath nor promise bind any such people to obey and maintain tyrants against God and against his truth known. John Knox
tyrants people mind
That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant, practiced in acts of despotism and cruelty. George Mason
tyrants important calling
It's important to remember that Bush Derangement Syndrome on the left - comparing him to Hitler, calling him a terrorist and a tyrant - preceded Obama Derangement Syndrome on the right. John Avlon
tyrants democracy dare
Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! Thomas Paine
tyrants tools tyranny
How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! Samuel Adams
tyrants realizing cop
All the cops are just workers for the one percent, and they don't even realize they're being exploited. Ray Lewis
tyrants doors morality
To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny. Simone Weil
tyrants race leader
Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race. Tim Bishop
tyrants house shadow
Heap up great wealth in your house, if you wish, and live as a tyrant, but, if the enjoyment of these things be lacking, I would not buy the rest for the shadow of smoke as against happiness. Sophocles
tyrants ideas
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God. Stendhal
tyrants ego world
The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to reconcile the claims and demands of all three...The three tyrants are the external world, the superego, and the id. Sigmund Freud
tyrants liberty
'Useful,' and 'necessity' was always 'the tyrant's plea'. C. S. Lewis