Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
If a despot like Adolf Hitler can think of 1000-year reign, why can't you think of a goal that is gonna last… — Peter J. Daniels Copy Share Image
Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake. — Edgar Wallace Copy Share Image
I don't give a damn if you like Blackbeard. I don't care if you think he is an absolute despot. Do you… — Ray Stevenson Copy Share Image
Nothing is more durable than the dynasty of Doubt; for he reigns in the hearts of all his people, but gives satisfaction… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Peace /n/: A rare state which has only existed when a despot has been fearsome or strong enough to impose it. The… — Boyd Rice Copy Share Image
Surely the fates are forever kind, though Nature's laws are more immutable than any despot's, yet to man's daily life they rarelyseem… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Ignorant, unconscious and dishonourable part of a society want and like kings, dictators, padishahs and all sort of despots; educated, conscious and… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“Technology adds a new dimension to the process by providing modern despots with instruments far more efficient than any available to their… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There is not land beneath the sun where there is an open Bible and a preached gospel, where a tyrant long can… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The West doesn't have to love us. In fact, we should ask ourselves more often why people are so suspicious of us.… — Vladislav Surkov Copy Share Image
There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said any assumption that the US would not use force against North Korea would be a mistake.… — Ann Coulter 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
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
all social relations exist and grow in the human mind. That one despot can rule over a million other men rests absolutely… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
The constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruption's of time and party, its… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I’m thinking of a God very different from the God of the Christian and far and away from the God of Islam,… — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
Muslims, scholars or not, are on the side of the oppressed and never on the side of the oppressors. Some scholars claim… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do,… — Plato Copy Share Image
“The lawyer is not worth in the calm times; his great role is when he must take the power of the despots,… — Rui Barbosa Copy Share Image
Love sometimes elevates, creates new qualities, suspends the working of evil inclinations; but only for a day. Love, then, is an Oriental… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
The great conductor is always a despot by temperament and intractable in his ways. ... The artist is obliged to keep his… — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
Power is the test. Some, once they have it, are content to buy the show of liking, and punish those who withhold… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
All ideas advanced to deal with the Florentine noise problem, the Florentine traffic problem, are Utopian, and nobody believes in them, just… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
When the last of the Reformers died, religion, instead of emancipating the nations, had become an excuse for the criminal art of… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Man, who wert once a despot and a slave, A dupe and a deceiver! a decay, A traveller from the cradle to… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The end of despots is always odd?exhilarating to those who suffered their tyrannies, and to those who hold despotism in contempt, and… — Fouad Ajami Copy Share Image
Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at… — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despots dread of a newspaper that laughs. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Neither a life of anarchy nor a life under a despot should you praise. To all that lies in the middle has… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
A man who's active and incisive can yet keep nail-care much in mind: why fight what's known to be decisive? Custom is… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
Woman, as Nature has created her and as she is currently reared by man, is his enemy and can only be his… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
The bicycle is a vehicle of revolution. It can destroy the tyranny of the automobile as effectively as the printing press brought… — Daniel Behrman Copy Share Image
