The power of the state is measured by the power that men surrender to it. — Felix Morley Copy Share Image
All the cops are just workers for the one percent, and they don't even realize they're being exploited. — Ray Lewis Copy Share Image
Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
Modern tyrants are terror managers. Do not allow your shock to be turned against your freedom. — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
“This is how tyrants fall. By destroying their people, they destroy themselves.” — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Whether or not patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, national security can be the last refuge of the tyrant. — Baron Walker of Gestingthorpe Robert Walker Copy Share Image
Allah guards the justice loving government, even if it is the government of non-Muslims, and destroys the tyrant government, even if it… — Ibn Taymiyyah Copy Share Image
We don't have to settle for Freedom Caucus tactics - those guys are tyrants. We don't have to accept that. In fact,… — Michael Bennet Copy Share Image
A headline last year, after the death of Saddam Hussein, read: 'Tyrant is hanged'. My auntie looked at the newspaper and sobbed,… — Steve Williams Copy Share Image
Let tyrants fear, I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
The hand of Vengeance found the Bed To which the Purple Tyrant fled The iron hand crush'd the tyrant's head And became… — William Blake Copy Share Image
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Notwithstanding my experiments with electricity the thunderbolt continues to fall under our noses and beards; and as for the tyrant, there are… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
But if one wishes to be absolute master of all, to obtain the entire inheritance, and to exclude his brothers from even… — Gregory of Nyssa Copy Share Image
We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
The child learns so easily because he has a natural gift, but adults, because they are tyrants, ignore natural gifts and say… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Ignorant, unconscious and dishonourable part of a society want and like kings, dictators, padishahs and all sort of despots; educated, conscious and… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of heaven on a Country. As nations can not… — George Mason Copy Share Image
It seems to us unwise to have insisted on teaching geometry to the younger Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, in order to make… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Nor is the guilt entirely with the warmongers, plutocrats and demagogues. If people permit exploitation and regimentation in any name, they deserve… — Jack Parsons Copy Share Image
International law? I better call my lawyer; he didn't bring that up to me. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
A tyrant does not remain in the world; But the curse on him abides forever! — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“Babies are frightening -- raw tyrants whose only kingdom is their own body.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of EMERGENCY. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free. — Bill Richardson Copy Share Image
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
What want these outlaws conquerors should have but history's purchased page to call them great? — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Tyrants are always assassinated too late. That is their great excuse. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
