Quotes about tyrant
tyrants tools tyranny
How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! Samuel Adams
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 liberty
'Useful,' and 'necessity' was always 'the tyrant's plea'. C. S. Lewis
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 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 people democracy
Democracy was the right of the people to choose their own tyrant. James Madison
tyrants evil liberty
The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it. John Hay
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 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. James Otis
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 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 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