Quotes about tyrant
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 people liberty
Today the primary threat to the liberties of the American people comes not from communism, foreign tyrants or dictators. It comes from the tendency on our own shores to centralize power, to trust bureaucracies rather than people. George Allen
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 self suffering
My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible. Mahatma Gandhi
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 license
A popular license is indeed the many-headed tyrant. Philip Sidney
tyrants cooperation duty
Non-cooperation with tyrants is a duty.
tyrants opponents want
It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed. Helen Dunmore
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 evil social-justice
Denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good. Philip Gourevitch
tyrants dust justice
When we have but the will to do it, that very moment will Justice be done: that very instant the tyrants of the Earth shall bite the dust. Peter Kropotkin
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 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 doors morality
To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny. Simone Weil
tyrants ideas perfection
The idea of perfection can be a tyrant you should overthrow, to gain your freedom. Kate Grenville
tyrants consolation superiors
Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants. Julien Green
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 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 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 stuff records
You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff. Richard Pryor
tyrants tools tyranny
How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! Samuel Adams
tyrants democracy dare
Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! Thomas Paine
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 world knows
From one tyrant to another. That is the world we know, now Veronica Roth
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 murder plus
Fascism is capitalism plus murder. Upton Sinclair