Tyrants Quotes · Page 12

Liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother.

— Camille Paglia

Slavery discourages arts and manufacturing ...[and] every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant.

— George Mason

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.

— Henry David Thoreau

Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them.

— Harold Evans

The only way to tyrantproof the presidency is not to elect tyrants to the presidency.

— Benjamin Wittes

The goal of tyrants is tyranny, and the goal of tyranny is tyranny.

— Donald James

The universal methodology of the tyrant is always incrementalism.

— Derek R. Audette

In buskined measures move Pale Grief and pleasing Pain, With Horror, tyrant of the throbbing breast.

— Thomas Gray

An evil exists that threatens every man, woman, and child of this great nation. We must take steps to ensure our domestic…

— Adolf Hitler

When human statecraft attaches a chain to the feet of a free man, whom it makes a slave in contempt of nature…

— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an…

— Joseph Story

Tyranny Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem None rebels except subjects? The prince who Neglects or violates his trust…

— Lord Byron

Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the Archangel…

— James Otis

Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism.

— John F. Kennedy

A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.

— Gilles Deleuze

Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening…

— Aldous Huxley

Part of the main plan of imperialism... is that we will give you your history, we will write it for you, we…

— Edward Said

Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is asserted by most respectable writers upon our government, that a well-regulated militia, composed of the yeomanry of the country, have…

— John L. DeWitt

[Slave] trade ... is the most shocking violation of the law of nature, has a direct tendency to diminish ... liberty, and…

— James Otis

The Allies had made war on Napoleon as a tyrant and an oppressor of nations; yet once they had him out of…

— J. Christopher Herold

The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain…

— Anonymous

Recent school shootings have lured ill-informed Americans into a war on our Second Amendment guarantees, led by the nation's tyrants and their…

— Walter E. Williams

Unaccountable private power concentrations that dominate economic and social life have the means to seek to "regiment the public mind," and become…

— Noam Chomsky

The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.

— Stendhal

Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy.

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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

— Emily Bronte

To imitate the hatred and violence of tyrants and murderers is the best way to take their place.

— Pope Francis

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

— Anonymous

Through talk, we tamed kings, restrained tyrants, averted revolution

— Tony Benn

If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.

— James F. Cooper

The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.

— Patrick Henry

“Politics is the purview of scoundrels, tyrants, and fools.”

— Jim Butcher

A magistrate is not a father; he must be just and severe. Only tyrants are fathers.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Muriel Spark

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

— Jose Rizal

Whoever declares a child to be "delicate" thereby crowns and anoints a tyrant.

— Robertson Davies

My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.

— June Jordan

The will of the nation is one of those phrases most widely abused by schemers and tyrants of all ages.

— Alexis de Tocqueville