Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Martyrs have been sincere. And so have tyrants. Wise men have been sincere. And so have fools. — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants. — Horace Copy Share Image
The women's movement is filled with tyrants, just as men's political movements are equally filled. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be feared. If I regret one thing, it is the fear I have caused. Fear is the tool… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“I believe the vulpine greed of the corporate world is cut from the very same cloth as the tyrant of history.” — Adam Nevill Copy Share Image
If women were in charge of everything, there would be women tyrants. If black people were in charge, there would be black… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
My great objection to this government is, that it does not leave us the means of defending our rights, or of waging… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
“History immortalises both the names of the greats and the tyrants without making a distinction between them.” — Aziz Hamza Copy Share Image
The consent of the governed" is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
Herein lies a riddle: How can a people so gifted by God become so seduced by naked power, so greedy for money,… — Philip Berrigan Copy Share Image
Our teachers were absolute tyrants. They had no sympathy with youth; their one object was to stuff our brains and turn us… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The cold war provided the perfect excuse for Western governments to plunder and exploit the Third World in the name of freedom;… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the… — Carl Levin Copy Share Image
Passion has overthrown tyrants and freed prisoners and slaves. Passion has brought justice where there was savagery. Passion has created freedom where… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Despotic governments do not recognize the precious human component of the state, seeing its citizens only as a faceless, mindless -- and… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
“Only a humorless tyrant could want a perpetual chanting of the praises that, one has no choice but to assume, would be… — Christopher Hitchens 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
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
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
People of Baghdad, remember for 26 generations you have suffered under strange tyrants who have ever endeavoured to set one Arab house… — Frederick Stanley Maude Copy Share Image
The Principle of Tolerance, fixed once for all the realization that all knowledge is limited. It is an irony of history that… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. — Socrates Copy Share Image
“Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.” — William Penn Copy Share Image
Power is a dangerous thing. Be careful that you don't abuse it or let it make a tyrant of you. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Neither Britain, a land fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets. — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Tyrants seek the hook on which to hang you. Try not to have hooks.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
