Quotes about tyrants
tyrants oligarchy tyranny
It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about. Pat Robertson
tyrants yield reason
To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields. Friedrich Nietzsche
tyrants goal enemy
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. Erich Fromm
tyrants people support
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. Harry Belafonte
tyrants america people
. . . 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. Gerry Spence
tyrants people mind
Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them. Harold Evans
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 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 people political
The people must remain ever vigilant against tyrants masquerading as public servants. George Washington
tyrants care instruments
Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them. George Santayana
tyrants people liberty
Today the primary threat to the liberties of the American people comes not from communism, foreign tyrants or dictators. It comes from the tendency on our own shores to centralize power, to trust bureaucracies rather than people. George Allen
tyrants opponents want
It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed. Helen Dunmore
tyrants ideas perfection
The idea of perfection can be a tyrant you should overthrow, to gain your freedom. Kate Grenville
tyrants religion literature
Religions are the cradles of despotism. Marquis de Sade
tyrants evil social-justice
Denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good. Philip Gourevitch
tyrants world affection
Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords. John Sterling
tyrants license
A popular license is indeed the many-headed tyrant. Philip Sidney
tyrants justice faces
The big tyrants never face justice George Galloway
tyrants cooperation duty
Non-cooperation with tyrants is a duty. Mahatma Gandhi
tyrants bricks thrones
Every apathetic individual is a brick in a tyrant's throne. Philip Slater
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.
tyrants profound sometimes
When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I turn liberal, they will say I have let them down. Emile Zola
tyrants ideas atheism
The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster. Emile M. Cioran
tyrants return torment
Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us. Emily Bronte
tyrants doors morality
To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny. Simone Weil
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 newspapers tyranny
If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own. James F. Cooper
tyrants growth prejudice
It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice. Henry A. Wallace
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 slave
There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves. Jose Rizal
tyrants independence today
Why independence? If the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow.
tyrants government revolution
The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a government; it is only a natural right to overturn a government. Lysander Spooner