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
I would rather be my own tyrant than have someone else tyrannize me. — Henry Flagler Copy Share Image
Ancient art was the tyrant of Egypt, the mistress of Greece and the servant of Rome. — Henry Fuseli Copy Share Image
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Heap up great wealth in your house, if you wish, and live as a tyrant, but, if the enjoyment of these things… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of… — Richard Pryor Copy Share Image
The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims. — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
Sow seed--but let no tyrant reap; Find wealth--let no imposter heap; Weave robes--let not the idle wear; Forge arms--in your defence to… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
No people to whom liberty is given can hold it as firmly and wear it as grandly as those who wrench their… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
In the States, I learned to fight for every idea. Sometimes, a director has to be a tyrant to keep the quality. — Jean-Pierre Jeunet Copy Share Image
Take sex away from people. Make it forbidden, evil. Limit it to ritualistic breeding. Force it to back up into suppressed sadism.… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Unaccountable private power concentrations that dominate economic and social life have the means to seek to "regiment the public mind," and become… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What use do I put my soul to? It is a serviceable question this, and should frequently be put to oneself. How… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The king is as much bound by his oath not to infringe the legal rights of the people, as the people are… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
“In this style, argue tyrants of every denomination, from the weak king to the weak father of a family; they are all… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
On a day when all Americans, regardless of party affiliation, are celebrating the growth of freedom and honoring the sacrifices of American… — Ken Mehlman 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
The Past is dead, and has no resurrection; but the Future is endowed with such a life, that it lives to us… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
At that moment, in the sunset on Watership Down, there was offered to General Woundwort the opportunity to show whether he was… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
America has entered a great struggle that tests our strength, and even more our resolve. Our nation is patient and steadfast. We… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Whence all this passion towards conformity anyway? Diversity is the word. Let man keep his many parts and you will have no… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The Principle of Uncertainty fixed once for all the realisation that all knowledge is limited. It is an irony of history that… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Truth ever lovely - since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man. — Thomas Campbell Copy Share Image
“As things stand the "intellectuals" only come out to lick the bones left over by the tyrant.” — Nilantha Ilangamuwa Copy Share Image
“Poets and intellectuals...are the ones the tyrants go after first.” — Frederick Smock Copy Share Image
