Quotes about tyrants
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 cooperation duty
Non-cooperation with tyrants is a duty. Mahatma Gandhi
tyrants people democracy
Democracy was the right of the people to choose their own tyrant. James Madison
tyrants rallying-cry liberty
Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.
tyrants evil liberty
The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it. John Hay
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 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 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 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 ideas perfection
The idea of perfection can be a tyrant you should overthrow, to gain your freedom. Kate Grenville
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 consolation superiors
Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants. Julien Green
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 chains tyranny
A nation which enslaves another forges its own chains. Karl Marx
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 idealism-and-realism despots
Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. Mikhail Bakunin
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 risk stopping
When you stop a dictator, there are always risks. But there are greater risks in not stopping a dictator. Margaret Thatcher
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 religion literature
Religions are the cradles of despotism. Marquis de Sade
tyrants oligarchy tyranny
It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about. Pat Robertson
tyrants feet dust
I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever. George C. Wallace
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 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