Quotes about tyrants
tyrants use injustice
Elizabeth Barrett Browning The tyrant should take heed to what he doth, Since every victim-carrion turns to use, And drives a chariot, like a god made wroth, Against each piled injustice.
tyrants conservative rebellion
Benjamin Franklin Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
tyrants history justice
Che Guevara If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.
tyrants today rebel
Will Durant Today's rebel is tomorrow's tyrant.
tyrants voice squares
Brandon Sanderson I killed you once", the Lord Ruler said, turning back to Kelsier. "You tried", Kelsier replied, his voice loud and firm, carrying across the square. "But you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that thing you've never been able to kill no matter how hard you try. I am hope.
tyrants trying matter
Brandon Sanderson But you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that one thing you've never been able to kill, no matter how hard you try. I am hope.
tyrants ears tyranny
Juvenal What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear?
tyrants natural natural-death
Juvenal Few tyrants go down to the infernal regions by a natural death.
tyrants different saint
C. S. Lewis How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.
tyrants grace doubt
Charles Colson The Bible has, amazingly- no doubt with supernatural grace-survived its critics. The harder tyrants try to eliminate it and skeptics dismiss it, the better read it becomes.
tyrants important calling
John Avlon 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.
tyrants done dictator
Dennis Prager More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.
tyrants states dealings
Demosthenes Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
tyrants guilt vengeance
Edward Young A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt.
tyrants cain world
Edward Young Blest leisure is our curse; like that of Cain, It, makes us wander, wander earth around, To fly that tyrant Thought. As Atlas groan'd The world beneath, we groan beneath an hour.
tyrants tyranny multitudes
Edmund Burke The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
tyrants age modern
Edward Abbey Industrialism, whether of the capitalist or socialist coloration, is the basic tyrant of the modern age.
tyrants people three
Aristotle All three states - the Lacedaemonian, the Cretan, and the Carthaginian - nearly resemble one another, and are very different from any others. Many of the Carthaginian institutions are excellent. The superiority of their constitution is proved by the fact that the common people remains loyal to the constitution; the Carthaginians have never had any rebellion worth speaking of, and have never been under the rule of a tyrant.
tyrants flattery beast
Ben Jonson Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
tyrants cruelty
Thomas Fuller Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.
tyrants historical liberators
Adolf Hitler Not as tyrants have we come, but as liberators.
tyrants tyranny pretext
Aesop The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.
tyrants taste genius
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste
tyrants violence moral
Albert Einstein Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.
tyrants lust succeed
Alexander Pope Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.
tyrants deeds remember
Dwight D. Eisenhower Remember that it is not by a tyrant's words, but only by his deeds that we can know him.
tyrants subjects obedient
Clarence Darrow Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
tyrants paris history
David Frum The monster has escaped Elba!" "The tyrant has landed at Cannes!" "Bonaparte meets the troops." "Napoleon approaches Paris." "His Imperial Majesty has entered the capital.
tyrants energy males
Ambrose Bierce WEAKNESSES, n.pl. Certain primal powers of Tyrant Woman wherewith she holds dominion over the male of her species, binding him to the service of her will and paralyzing his rebellious energies.
tyrants relax delight
Work becomes at once a delight and a tyrant. For even when the time comes and you can relax, you hardly know how.
tyrants democracy virtue
Anatole France Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.
tyrants names tongue
William Shakespeare This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,Was once thought honest.