Quotes about tyrant
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 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 ignorant democracy
The consent of the governed" is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well. Walter Lippmann
tyrants government politics
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination. Voltaire
tyrants law sovereign
The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.
tyrants reign yoke
Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke. William C. Bryant
tyrants earth palaces
Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation. Walter Savage Landor
tyrants balance fool
[Magna Carta provided] "a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion by a tyrant or a fool. Winston Churchill
tyrants enemy worst
The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts. William Ellery Channing
tyrants
...the greatest tyrants over women are women. William Makepeace Thackeray