Quotes about tyrants
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. George W. Bush
tyrants
Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.
tyrants aids
Let us render the tyrant no aid. Frederick Douglass
tyrants ideas soldier
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. Howard Zinn
tyrants yield reason
To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields. Friedrich Nietzsche
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 cruelty
Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear. Thomas Fuller
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
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 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 religion literature
Religions are the cradles of despotism. Marquis de Sade
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