Quotes about tyrants
tyrants common inspired
Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle. Jonathan Mayhew
tyrants suffering ifs
If Obama's a tyrant, he's a pretty tame tyrant. How many tyrants do you know that really suffer because they can't get cloture? Jon Stewart
tyrants consolation superiors
Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants. Julien Green
tyrants rights arms
Sow seed--but let no tyrant reap; Find wealth--let no imposter heap; Weave robes--let not the idle wear; Forge arms--in your defence to bear. Percy Bysshe Shelley
tyrants warning regimes
Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes. Paul Wolfowitz
tyrants evil liberty
The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it. John Hay
tyrants rebel neglect
Tyranny Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem None rebels except subjects? The prince who Neglects or violates his trust is more A brigand than the robber-chief. Lord Byron
tyrants two firsts
There are two kinds of rebellion. The first is one in which the slave demands something that the tyrant has got. The second is one in which he demands something that the tyrant has not got. Gilbert K. Chesterton
tyrants mind
Thou tyrant, tyrant Jealousy, Thou tyrant of the mind! John Dryden
tyrants house tyranny
Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch. John le Carre
tyrants people promise
Neither can oath nor promise bind any such people to obey and maintain tyrants against God and against his truth known. John Knox
tyrants people mind
That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant, practiced in acts of despotism and cruelty. George Mason
tyrants needs united-states
A great nation like the United States has many and varied interests, and we need both to do business with tyrants and to engage constantly in multilateral diplomacy. Elliott Abrams
tyrants tools tyranny
How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! Samuel Adams
tyrants realizing cop
All the cops are just workers for the one percent, and they don't even realize they're being exploited. Ray Lewis
tyrants fog drunk
I loved Jack Ford. I got him in his later days, and he was a total tyrant and a total autocrat and an Irish drunk. But I had a great time. Richard Widmark
tyrants democracy dare
Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! Thomas Paine
tyrants house shadow
Heap up great wealth in your house, if you wish, and live as a tyrant, but, if the enjoyment of these things be lacking, I would not buy the rest for the shadow of smoke as against happiness. Sophocles
tyrants ideas
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God. Stendhal
tyrants ego world
The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to reconcile the claims and demands of all three...The three tyrants are the external world, the superego, and the id. Sigmund Freud
tyrants noble tyranny
Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny. Pierre Corneille
tyrants congress-and-the-president hatred
To imitate the hatred and violence of tyrants and murderers is the best way to take their place. Pope Francis
tyrants taxation-without-representation tyranny
Taxation without representation is tyranny. James Otis
tyrants may murder
Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.
tyrants light political
Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere. James Madison
tyrants people democracy
Democracy was the right of the people to choose their own tyrant.
tyrants rallying-cry liberty
Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.
tyrants race leader
Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race. Tim Bishop
tyrants world knows
From one tyrant to another. That is the world we know, now Veronica Roth
tyrants enemy worst
The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts. William Ellery Channing
tyrants causes disease
A tyrant is the worst disease, and the cause of all others. William Blake
tyrants vision firm
Hold firm to your vision but don't be a tyrant on set, Werner Herzog
tyrants
God himself has no right to be a tyrant. William Godwin