Quotes about tyrants
tyrants states dealings
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states. Demosthenes
tyrants people black
If women were in charge of everything, there would be women tyrants. If black people were in charge, there would be black tyrants. If Hispanics were in charge, then Hispanic tyrants. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
tyrants cruelty
Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear. Thomas Fuller
tyrants chains tyranny
A nation which enslaves another forges its own chains. Karl Marx
tyrants idealism-and-realism despots
Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. Mikhail Bakunin
tyrants ideas people
Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? J. K. Rowling
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 abuse limits
There has never been a humane communist regime. Marxism is inherently totalitarian. It recognizes no moral limits on the state. It’s the most convenient ideology for aspiring tyrants; it also retains its appeal for intellectuals, who have proved equally skillful at rationalizing abuses of power and at exculpating themselves.
tyrants hands enemy
Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
tyrants revolution chance
A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance. Muriel Spark
tyrants risk stopping
When you stop a dictator, there are always risks. But there are greater risks in not stopping a dictator. Margaret Thatcher
tyrants perspective slave
The tyrant is nothing but a slave turned inside out. Herbert Spencer
tyrants insult slave
Of all insults, the temporary condescension of a master to a slave is the most outrageous and galling. That potentate who most condescends, mark him well; for that potentate, if occasion come, will prove your uttermost tyrant. Herman Melville
tyrants tyranny can-not
Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die. Jacques Delille
tyrants choices religion
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! Christopher Hitchens
tyrants feet dust
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. George C. Wallace
tyrants attention mercy
That's what tyrants do, I guess. They make you covet their attention; they make you confuse attention for mercy. Gary Shteyngart
tyrants
A Tyrant is most tyrant to himselfe. George Herbert
tyrants hatred reign
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. George W. Bush
tyrants intention strikes
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
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
Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.
tyrants anarchy tyranny
Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart. Jeremy Bentham
tyrants ideas soldier
If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves. Howard Zinn
tyrants aids
Let us render the tyrant no aid. Frederick Douglass
tyrants flight
Flight is lawful, when one flies from tyrants. Jean Racine
tyrants church may
May the Lord destroy all the tyrants of the church. Amen. Michael Servetus
tyrants covenant weapons
Death is the ultimate weapon of the tyrant; resurrection does not make a covenant with death, it overthrows it. N. T. Wright
tyrants justice wave
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! Lydia M. Child
tyrants brain
There's no tyrant like a brain. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
tyrants justice islam
Islam has always been a force that dispels tyrants and tyranny, opression and exploitaion. Islam has always been a force that militates for justice. Louis Farrakhan
tyrants differences bigs
There's a big difference between a decisive manager and a tyrant. Mary Kay Ash
tyrants coward tyranny
none can be Tyrants but Cowards. Mary Astell