The problem with Antigone is that she stood up to the despot Creon, but in such a way that she ended up… — Judith Butler 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
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I realized that I had granted my illness lordship over me. In viewing my depression as a despot subjecting me to its… — Eric G. Wilson 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
Absolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the absolute despot… — Eric Hoffer 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
In times of anarchy one may seem a despot in order to be a saviour. — Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau Copy Share Image
I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The… — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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
One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one. — James Madison 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… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Even despots accept the excellence of liberty. The simple truth is that they wish to keep it for themselves and promote the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Historically speaking, the Christian religion is nothing but a Jewish sect... After the destruction of Judaism, the extinction of Christian slave morals… — Adolf Hitler 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
There is something very consistent about governance in the Arab world. Among the Arab countries today in which there is a modicum… — Michael Totten Copy Share Image
Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The lust of dominion innovates so imperceptibly that we become complete despots before our wanton abuse of power is perceived; the tyranny… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
No despot ever flung forth his legions to die in foreign conquest, no privilege-ruled nation ever erupted across its borders, to lock… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
When I have been travelling up and down on our boats, or about on my collecting tours, and reflected that every brutal,… — Harriet Beecher Stowe 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
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
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
