To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little. — Honeysuckle Weeks Copy Share Image
Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke. — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend He now dare… — Joanna Baillie Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants. — Julien Green Copy Share Image
For some suspicious reason gods always have the same traits as human tyrants. — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image
“Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannise their teachers.” — Socrates Copy Share Image
Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Today the primary threat to the liberties of the American people comes not from communism, foreign tyrants or dictators. It comes from… — George Allen Copy Share Image
I've personally demanded that tyrants let their people go. I've tried to feed the hungry, clothe the poor, protect the elderly and… — Gary Ackerman Copy Share Image
“Let the warning of the tyrants of the past be recognized for it shall be the same one ringing out when the… — Sai Marie Johnson Copy Share Image
Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the effect of such [gun control] laws is to place the individual at… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
So the villains aren't gay-hating Islamists or women killing tyrants, but actually us: an American Congress bent on the apocalypse. Don't we… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
E? loquence quipersuade par douceur, non par empire, en tyran, non en roi. Eloquence should persuade gently, not by force or like… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly terrible to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a free press. — Samuel Copy Share Image
When dictators and tyrants seek to destroy the freedoms of men, their first target is the legal profession and through it the… — Leon Jaworski Copy Share Image
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
They would be subject to no one, neither to lawful ruler nor to the reign of law, but would be altogether and… — Plato Copy Share Image
The great masses of men, though theoretically free, are seen to submit supinely to oppression and exploitation of a hundred abhorrent sorts.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
All three states - the Lacedaemonian, the Cretan, and the Carthaginian - nearly resemble one another, and are very different from any… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Mew," the kitten retorted, locking gazes with him. It had the expression common to all kittens, that of a tyrant in the… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
Voldemort himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
These individuals are tyrants, and so they hate democracy. They are bigots, zealots, and persecutors, and so they hate Americas freedom tolerance,… — Ted Olson Copy Share Image
The greatest bulwark against an overreaching government, as tyrants know, is a religious population. That is because religious people form communities of… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
In Iraq #1 we stayed within U.N. mandates, limited our response, went home after Kuwait was freed - and were censured for… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
“Only portions of the globe still enslaved by the enemies of the people refrained from congratulating President Zingu and Premier Villiers-Kolama upon… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“Democracies, as we know, are prone to every error from incompetence and corruption to misguided fetishes and gridlock. Therefore, it is astonishing,… — Madeleine K. Albright Copy Share Image
Every solitary one of these aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
The preservation of a free government requires not merely that the metes and bounds which separate each department of power be invariably… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Every one of the aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the war… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
“TIME OUT Every single time shit happens in history everyone runs for cover to a church or an underground bunker fearing death… — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
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