Famous Quotes & Sayings

Upton Sinclair

Fascism is capitalism plus murder.

Twyla Tharp

I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.

William Godwin

God himself has no right to be a tyrant.

Tim Bishop

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.

Herbert Spencer

The tyrant is nothing but a slave turned inside out.

Herman Melville

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.

Jeremy Bentham

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.

Christopher Hitchens

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!

Jean Racine

Flight is lawful, when one flies from tyrants.

Howard Zinn

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche

To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.

Erich Fromm

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.

Gary Shteyngart

That's what tyrants do, I guess. They make you covet their attention; they make you confuse attention for mercy.

George Herbert

A Tyrant is most tyrant to himselfe.

George W. Bush

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

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?

George W. Bush

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.

George W. Bush

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

Frederick Douglass

Let us render the tyrant no aid.

Muriel Spark

A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.

J. K. Rowling

Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress?

Jacques Delille

Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die.

Miguel Syjuco

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

Jose Rizal

There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.

Jose Rizal

Why independence? If the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow.

Mahatma Gandhi

My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.

James Otis

Taxation without representation is tyranny.

James Otis

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.

James Madison

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.

Emile Zola

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 M. Cioran

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.

Emily Bronte

Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.

Helen Dunmore

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.