Quotes about tyrants
tyrants reign weak
The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind. The tyrants continue to reign because the weak cannot resist. Do you not see that it is a cycle? Who will break that cycle? Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
tyrants use injustice
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. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
tyrants conservative rebellion
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God. Benjamin Franklin
tyrants history justice
If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine. Che Guevara
tyrants today rebel
Today's rebel is tomorrow's tyrant. Will Durant
tyrants voice squares
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. Brandon Sanderson
tyrants trying matter
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
What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear? Juvenal
tyrants natural natural-death
Few tyrants go down to the infernal regions by a natural death.
tyrants different saint
How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints. C. S. Lewis
tyrants grace doubt
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. Charles Colson
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 done dictator
More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators. Dennis Prager
tyrants states dealings
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states. Demosthenes
tyrants guilt vengeance
A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt. Edward Young
tyrants cain world
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
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny. Edmund Burke
tyrants age modern
Industrialism, whether of the capitalist or socialist coloration, is the basic tyrant of the modern age. Edward Abbey
tyrants people three
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. Aristotle
tyrants flattery beast
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer. Ben Jonson
tyrants cruelty
Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear. Thomas Fuller
tyrants historical liberators
Not as tyrants have we come, but as liberators. Adolf Hitler
tyrants tyranny pretext
The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny. Aesop
tyrants taste genius
A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
tyrants violence moral
Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels. Albert Einstein
tyrants lust succeed
Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds. Alexander Pope
tyrants deeds remember
Remember that it is not by a tyrant's words, but only by his deeds that we can know him. Dwight D. Eisenhower
tyrants subjects obedient
Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects. Clarence Darrow
tyrants paris history
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. David Frum
tyrants energy males
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. Ambrose Bierce
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
Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants. Anatole France
tyrants names tongue
This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,Was once thought honest. William Shakespeare