The ideal citizen of a tyrannical state is the man or woman who bows in silent obedience in exchange for the status… — Claire Wolfe Copy Share Image
Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel It runs a headlong course to desperate… — John Ford Copy Share Image
The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the… — Plato Copy Share Image
Some have said we must not act until the threat is imminent. Since when have terrorists and tyrants announced their intentions, politely… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
People might say I'm difficult, but did you ever hear anyone describe a label as 'difficult'? By nature, artists should challenge. When… — Michelle Shocked Copy Share Image
Tyranny seldom announces itself...In fact, a tyranny may exist without an individual tyrant. A whole government, even a democratically elected one, may… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
That's what tyrants do, I guess. They make you covet their attention; they make you confuse attention for mercy. — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A single ray of light from a distant star falling upon the eye of a tyrant in bygone times may have altered… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What I like about a dog it stops people getting after you, they're not going to come round in the night. But… — Caryl Churchill Copy Share Image
Formerly, when a king died at Versailles the reign of his successor was immediately announced by the cry: "The king is dead,… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
What is hateful is not rebellion but the despotism which induces the rebellion; what is hateful are not rebels but the men,… — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share Image
“Ever since I arrived to a state of manhood, I have felt a sincere passion for liberty. The history of nations doomed… — Ethan Allen Copy Share Image
The misfortunes which God is represented in the book of Job as allowing Satan to inflict on Job, merely to test his… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Have you ever heard of a woman bloody dictator or tyrant? I think not. If there were more women in power, I… — Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj Copy Share Image
The strongest passions and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venal love of fame, are… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The virtue of female slaves is wholly at the mercy of irresponsible tyrants, and women are bought and sold in our slave… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
None can love freedom heartily but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license which never hath more scope than under… — John Milton Copy Share Image
It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes. — Paul Wolfowitz Copy Share Image
If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
It seems to be almost inevitable that the man who accepts a subordinate economic position in the Family degenerates into a loafer… — Helen Bosanquet Copy Share Image
“A King, by disallowing Acts of this salutary nature, from being the father of his people, degenerated into a Tyrant and forfeits… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
“It is the principle of the things, Jess. That is what you have got to understand. You have to stop people like… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
People will endure their tyrants for years, but they tear their deliverers to pieces if a millennium is not created immediately. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The Fifth Amendment is an old friend and a good friend, one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The shortest way to change a radical into a conservative, a liberal into a tyrant, a man into a beast, is to… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
But they don't use law-they use law for their interests. They don't go by law, international, federal, local-nothing! They go by whatever… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Charlie Hebdo: Satire was the father of true political freedom, born in the 18th century; the scourge of bigots and tyrants. Sing… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
What kind of tyrant punishes everyone just to get back at the few he's mad at? I mean, besides Chris Christie. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents,… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on… — Georges Clemenceau Copy Share Image
The most effective means of preventing tyranny is to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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