Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It is outrageous that the Queen has invited royal tyrants to celebrate her diamond jubilee. — Peter Tatchell Copy Share Image
“Kings will be tyrants by policy when subjects are rebels from principle.” — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Twixt kings and tyrants there's this difference known; Kings seek their subjects' good: tyrants their own. — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could. — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Verily, the index finger that testifies to the oneness of Allah Azzawajal in prayer, utterly rejects to write even an alphabet, endorsing… — Sayyid Qutb Copy Share Image
I do not see why I should be polite to tyrants, who slobber of humanitarianism and think only of their own petty… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Tyrants always condemn and seek to replace the market process with government coercion because tyrants do not trust that people behaving voluntarily… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
When politicians don black robes and seize powers they do not have, they should be called out for what they are -… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu. [Fr., Amour! Amour! quand tu nous tiens On peut… — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him to save,… — Cato the Younger Copy Share Image
Work becomes at once a delight and a tyrant. For even when the time comes and you can relax, you hardly know… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
As for the petty little world of journalism, the media demonstrates how it, more than anyone, is careful to traffic only in… — Robert Faurisson Copy Share Image
I remember that throughout history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
The slaves of today will become the tyrants of tomorrow--the proletariat overthrows the hegemon to become the hegemon itself, only to be… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
What constitutes a good manager in this field? He must be knowledgeable in the art with which he is concerned, an impresario,… — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Wretched men cringe before tyrants who have no power, the victims of their trivial hopes and fears. They do not realise that… — Boethius Copy Share Image
I had gradually come, by this time [1839-01], to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Why do they do this? Because it gives them a license to act like tyrants and to feel like saints. “Do what… — John Holt Copy Share Image
Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special,… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
“TIME OUT Every single time shit happens in history everyone runs for cover to a church or an underground bunker fearing death… — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
People who denounce the free market and voluntary exchange, and are for control and coercion, believe they have more intelligence and superior… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Is it not High Time for the People of this Country explicitly to declare, whether they will be Freemen or Slaves? It… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Under the present dispensation, the great majority of factories are little despotisms, benevolent in some cases, malevolent in others. Even where benevolence… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin… — Thomas Jefferson 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
It was the hard work of our people, the freedom they enjoyed and their faith in God that built this country and… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The automobile, practical since 1906, was proceeding to disintegrate and stamp anew the pattern of communication, manners, and city life in the… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image