Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dennis Prager

More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.

Demosthenes

Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.

Ben Jonson

Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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?

Che Guevara

If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.

Will Durant

Today's rebel is tomorrow's tyrant.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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.

Benjamin Franklin

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

Charles Colson

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.

Robert Rainy

For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited.

Koko Taylor

I was so glad to get out of the cotton patch and stop pickin' cotton, I wouldn't of cared who come by and said, 'I'll take you to Chicago.'

Albert Schweitzer

To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

Steven Brill

We're not dealing with kidnappers here. When you see the way they continued to raise him and take care of him, you're dealing with parents that love their kid and would do anything they could to keep him.

George H. W. Bush

Mandatory evacuations have been ordered for New Orleans and Galveston. I urge the citizens to listen carefully to the instructions provided by state and the local authorities. And follow them,

Joan Lingard

Like children, adolescents need a framework. Otherwise they can't cope. When someone has unlimited freedom, it means there's nobody who cares what they're doing.

Brenda Valdes

Life is ... you work, you support yourself, take care of yourself, but you also have to take care of your community.

Jason Varitek

Like I always say, we handle things in here. In no way, shape or form are we going to play a media game with our teammates. I think that people look to pick on things on Manny because he's Manny Ramirez. We'll take care of things and we take care of things in here.

Lou Lamoriello

Let's be careful how far we go with that.

Bobby McFerrin

The audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.

C. S. Lewis

Friendship is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.

Alexander Pope

When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.

Anais Nin

myself ... is merely an instrument to connect life and a myth

Cassandra Clare

I wouldn't call that an instrument of music," Ragnor observed sourly. "An instrument of torture, perhaps.

Herbert Marcuse

This is the pure form of servitude: to exist as an instrument.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Is there an observation which is not the instrument of thought?

R. Buckminster Fuller

I see God in the instruments and mechanisms that work reliably.