Quotes about tyrant
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 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 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 flight
Flight is lawful, when one flies from tyrants. Jean Racine
tyrants differences bigs
There's a big difference between a decisive manager and a tyrant. Mary Kay Ash
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 world affection
Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords. John Sterling
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 bricks thrones
Every apathetic individual is a brick in a tyrant's throne. Philip Slater
tyrants justice faces
The big tyrants never face justice George Galloway
tyrants covenant weapons
Death is the ultimate weapon of the tyrant; resurrection does not make a covenant with death, it overthrows it. N. T. Wright
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 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
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 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 evil liberty
The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it. John Hay
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