Quotes about tyrant
tyrants names tongue
This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,Was once thought honest. William Shakespeare
tyrants age democracy
The will of the nation is one of those phrases most widely abused by schemers and tyrants of all ages. Alexis de Tocqueville
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 idealism-and-realism despots
Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. Mikhail Bakunin
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 religion literature
Religions are the cradles of despotism. Marquis de Sade
tyrants chains tyranny
A nation which enslaves another forges its own chains. Karl Marx
tyrants ideas people
Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? J. K. Rowling
tyrants church may
May the Lord destroy all the tyrants of the church. Amen. Michael Servetus
tyrants coward tyranny
none can be Tyrants but Cowards. Mary Astell
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 oligarchy tyranny
It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about. Pat Robertson
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 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 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 tyranny can-not
Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die. Jacques Delille
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 perspective slave
The tyrant is nothing but a slave turned inside out. Herbert Spencer