For some suspicious reason gods always have the same traits as human tyrants. — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants. — Julien Green Copy Share Image
My father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little. — Honeysuckle Weeks Copy Share Image
The idea of perfection can be a tyrant you should overthrow, to gain your freedom. — Kate Grenville Copy Share Image
Opinion is, as it were, the queen of the world, but force is its tyrant. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke. — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. — Plato Copy Share Image
When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
“Let the warning of the tyrants of the past be recognized for it shall be the same one ringing out when the… — Sai Marie Johnson Copy Share Image
If there is a God who will damn his children forever, I would rather go to hell than to go to heaven… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the effect of such [gun control] laws is to place the individual at… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
E? loquence quipersuade par douceur, non par empire, en tyran, non en roi. Eloquence should persuade gently, not by force or like… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
So the villains aren't gay-hating Islamists or women killing tyrants, but actually us: an American Congress bent on the apocalypse. Don't we… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For Freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly terrible to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a free press. — Samuel Copy Share Image
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
If there is no struggle, there is no progress…This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one;… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
There has never been a humane communist regime. Marxism is inherently totalitarian. It recognizes no moral limits on the state. It’s the… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
If you want a war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men are ever subject, because doctrines… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The greatest bulwark against an overreaching government, as tyrants know, is a religious population. That is because religious people form communities of… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
These individuals are tyrants, and so they hate democracy. They are bigots, zealots, and persecutors, and so they hate Americas freedom tolerance,… — Ted Olson Copy Share Image
We always think we are right, and - search as I have - there is no evil under the sun that somebody… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Of all insults, the temporary condescension of a master to a slave is the most outrageous and galling. That potentate who most… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
There are only two possible forms of control: one internal and the other external; religious control and political control. They are of… — Juan Donoso Cortes Copy Share Image
The world has paid a heavy price for the lack of democracy in most of the Middle East. Operation Ajax [CIA code… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
In Iraq #1 we stayed within U.N. mandates, limited our response, went home after Kuwait was freed - and were censured for… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
Scientific societies are as yet in their infancy. It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In the 21st Century, the community of nations may see more and more of this very kind of threat that Iraq poses… — Sandy Berger Copy Share Image
“Only portions of the globe still enslaved by the enemies of the people refrained from congratulating President Zingu and Premier Villiers-Kolama upon… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“Democracies, as we know, are prone to every error from incompetence and corruption to misguided fetishes and gridlock. Therefore, it is astonishing,… — Madeleine K. Albright 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
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