“The lawyer is not worth in the calm times; his great role is when he must take the power of the despots,… — Rui Barbosa Copy Share Image
Love sometimes elevates, creates new qualities, suspends the working of evil inclinations; but only for a day. Love, then, is an Oriental… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Man, who wert once a despot and a slave, A dupe and a deceiver! a decay, A traveller from the cradle to… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The end of despots is always odd?exhilarating to those who suffered their tyrannies, and to those who hold despotism in contempt, and… — Fouad Ajami Copy Share Image
All ideas advanced to deal with the Florentine noise problem, the Florentine traffic problem, are Utopian, and nobody believes in them, just… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
The sea does not belong to despots. Upon its surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear one another to pieces,… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
When the last of the Reformers died, religion, instead of emancipating the nations, had become an excuse for the criminal art of… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
The West doesn't have to love us. In fact, we should ask ourselves more often why people are so suspicious of us.… — Vladislav Surkov Copy Share Image
There is not land beneath the sun where there is an open Bible and a preached gospel, where a tyrant long can… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said any assumption that the US would not use force against North Korea would be a mistake.… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
When I have been travelling up and down on our boats, or about on my collecting tours, and reflected that every brutal,… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
We recognize caste in dogs because we rank ourselves by the familiar dog system, a ladderlike social arrangement wherein one individual outranks… — Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Copy Share Image
Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at… — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
The Principle of Tolerance, fixed once for all the realization that all knowledge is limited. It is an irony of history that… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
