When you stop a dictator, there are always risks. But there are greater risks in not stopping a dictator. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Do you want to know something about tyrants? When faced with death, they weep and they beg just like the rest of… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
We immerse ourselves in escapist mass entertainment, such as 'reality T.V.' programs. We support fanatical politicians and preachers. Our politicians, in turn,… — Brendan Myers Copy Share Image
I don't really think in terms of the future of literature. I think literature will be around "forever" - but in a… — Nick Antosca Copy Share Image
The shortest way to change a radical into a conservative, a liberal into a tyrant, a man into a beast, is to… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants. — Julien Green Copy Share Image
To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty.… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Social and cultural change, however desirable, should not be effected by the engines of national power. Let us, through persuasion and education,… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
I remember when I first started having these interpretations of these images, these clichés of what movie stars are and this and… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
the greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I will never, for the future, paint the portrait of a tyrant until his head lies before me on the scaffold. — Jacques-Louis David Copy Share Image
Let tyrants fear, I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a law of bondage; and if it respect the hand of God which sometimes raises up tyrants, it draws… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him... Those who… — William Penn 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
What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act? That everything around you give you its utter attention, think… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward… — Anonymous 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
[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
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