The lawyer is not worth in the calm times; his great role…

“Any lawyer worth his salt knew the first offer had to be rejected.”

— John Grisham

Remaining calm in times of desperation makes way for opportunity.

— Simon Sinek

“The psychopaths are always around. In calm times we study them, but in times of upheaval, they rule over us.”

— Ernst Kretschmer

“The psychopaths are always around. In calm times we study them, but in times of upheaval, they rule over us.” —Ernst Kretschmer”

— Brenda Novak

Muslims, scholars or not, are on the side of the oppressed and never on the side of the oppressors. Some scholars claim they don't…

— Tariq Ramadan

Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotismat…

— August Wilhelm von Schlegel

It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.

— Thomas Jefferson

Those who disagree with the dictator's plan have no other means to carry on than to defeat the despot by force of arms.

— Ludwig von Mises

Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much.

— Bill Owens

Nothing is more durable than the dynasty of Doubt; for he reigns in the hearts of all his people, but gives satisfaction to none…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Every State is a despotism, be the despot one or many.

— Max Stirner

There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul.…

— Oscar Wilde

All ideas advanced to deal with the Florentine noise problem, the Florentine traffic problem, are Utopian, and nobody believes in them, just as nobody…

— Mary McCarthy

If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.

— George Bernard Shaw

At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.

— Stendhal