Quotes about tyrant
tyrants natural natural-death
Few tyrants go down to the infernal regions by a natural death. Juvenal
tyrants use injustice
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. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
tyrants reign weak
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? Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
tyrants history justice
If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine. Che Guevara
tyrants today rebel
Today's rebel is tomorrow's tyrant. Will Durant
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 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 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 anarchy tyranny
Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart. Jeremy Bentham
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 flight
Flight is lawful, when one flies from tyrants. Jean Racine
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 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 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 aids
Let us render the tyrant no aid. Frederick Douglass
tyrants revolution chance
A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance. Muriel Spark
tyrants ideas people
Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? J. K. Rowling
tyrants tyranny can-not
Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die. Jacques Delille
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 idealism-and-realism despots
Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. Mikhail Bakunin
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 risk stopping
When you stop a dictator, there are always risks. But there are greater risks in not stopping a dictator. Margaret Thatcher