Quotes about tyrants
tyrants age modern
Industrialism, whether of the capitalist or socialist coloration, is the basic tyrant of the modern age. Edward Abbey
tyrants people three
All three states - the Lacedaemonian, the Cretan, and the Carthaginian - nearly resemble one another, and are very different from any others. Many of the Carthaginian institutions are excellent. The superiority of their constitution is proved by the fact that the common people remains loyal to the constitution; the Carthaginians have never had any rebellion worth speaking of, and have never been under the rule of a tyrant. Aristotle
tyrants liberty
'Useful,' and 'necessity' was always 'the tyrant's plea'. C. S. Lewis
tyrants hands feelings
Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot. Bill Vaughan
tyrants forever doe
A tyrant does not remain in the world; But the curse on him abides forever!
tyrants care lasts
It is in the nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know-or care-about circumstances in the colonies. Bertrand Russell
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 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 yield reason
To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields. Friedrich Nietzsche
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 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 religion literature
Religions are the cradles of despotism. Marquis de Sade
tyrants idealism-and-realism despots
Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. Mikhail Bakunin
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 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 oligarchy tyranny
It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about. Pat Robertson
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 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 differences bigs
There's a big difference between a decisive manager and a tyrant. Mary Kay Ash
tyrants coward tyranny
none can be Tyrants but Cowards. Mary Astell
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 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 flight
Flight is lawful, when one flies from tyrants. Jean Racine
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