Quotes about tyrants
tyrants world affection
John Sterling Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.
tyrants bricks thrones
Philip Slater Every apathetic individual is a brick in a tyrant's throne.
tyrants license
Philip Sidney A popular license is indeed the many-headed tyrant.
tyrants covenant weapons
N. T. Wright Death is the ultimate weapon of the tyrant; resurrection does not make a covenant with death, it overthrows it.
tyrants differences bigs
Mary Kay Ash There's a big difference between a decisive manager and a tyrant.
tyrants coward tyranny
Mary Astell none can be Tyrants but Cowards.
tyrants justice wave
Lydia M. Child They [slaves] have stabbed themselves for freedom-jumped into the waves for freedom-starved for freedom-fought like very tigers for freedom! But they have been hung, and burned, and shot-and their tyrants have been their historians!
tyrants brain
Louis-Ferdinand Celine There's no tyrant like a brain.
tyrants justice islam
Louis Farrakhan Islam has always been a force that dispels tyrants and tyranny, opression and exploitaion. Islam has always been a force that militates for justice.
tyrants age democracy
Alexis de Tocqueville The will of the nation is one of those phrases most widely abused by schemers and tyrants of all ages.
tyrants choices religion
Christopher Hitchens Only a humorless tyrant could want a perpetual chanting of praises that, one has no choice but to assume, would be the innate virtues and splendors furnished him by his creator, infinite regression, drowned in praise!
tyrants people political
George Washington The people must remain ever vigilant against tyrants masquerading as public servants.
tyrants care instruments
George Santayana Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
tyrants hatred reign
George W. Bush There is only one force of history that can break the reign of hatred and resentment and expose the pretensions of tyrants and reward the hopes of the decent and tolerant. And that is the force of human freedom.
tyrants intention strikes
George W. Bush Some have said we must not act until the threat is imminent. Since when have terrorists and tyrants announced their intentions, politely putting us on notice before they strike?
tyrants dumb lines
George W. Bush See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.
tyrants
George W. Bush Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.
tyrants aids
Frederick Douglass Let us render the tyrant no aid.
tyrants attention mercy
Gary Shteyngart That's what tyrants do, I guess. They make you covet their attention; they make you confuse attention for mercy.
tyrants
George Herbert A Tyrant is most tyrant to himselfe.
tyrants flight
Jean Racine Flight is lawful, when one flies from tyrants.
tyrants yield reason
Friedrich Nietzsche To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.
tyrants goal enemy
Erich Fromm Another nation is made out to be utterly depraved and fiendish, while one's own nation stands for everything that is good and noble. Every action of the enemy is judged by one standard - every action of oneself by another. Even good deeds by the enemy are considered a sign of particular devilishness, meant to deceive us and the world, while our bad deeds are necessary and justified by our noble goals, which they serve.
tyrants people support
Harry Belafonte No matter what the greatest tyrant in the world, the greatest terrorist in the world, George W. Bush says, we're here to tell you: Not hundreds, not thousands, but millions of the American people ... support your revolution.
tyrants america people
Gerry Spence . . . in America, we have achieved the Orwellian prediction - enslaved, the people have been programmed to love their bondage and are left to clutch only mirage-like images of freedom, its fables and fictions. The new slaves are linked together by vast electronic chains of television that imprison not their bodies but their minds. Their desires are programmed, their tastes manipulated, their values set for them.
tyrants people mind
Harold Evans Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them.
tyrants liberty
C. S. Lewis 'Useful,' and 'necessity' was always 'the tyrant's plea'.
tyrants hands feelings
Bill Vaughan Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.
tyrants forever doe
Bill Vaughan A tyrant does not remain in the world; But the curse on him abides forever!
tyrants care lasts
Bertrand Russell It is in the nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know-or care-about circumstances in the colonies.
tyrants feet dust
George C. Wallace I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.
tyrants perspective slave
Herbert Spencer The tyrant is nothing but a slave turned inside out.