In former days, men sold themselves to the Devil to acquire magical powers. Nowadays they acquire those powers from science, and find… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There is also a doubt as to what is to be the supreme power in the state: - Is it the multitude?… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It was known in the mid 90s already that Saddam Hussein was a dangerous tyrant that he had already launched aggressions against… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Of the tyrant, spies and informers are the principal instruments. War is his favorite occupation, for the sake of engrossing the attention… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
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
Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance. — Muriel Spark 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
There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein's regime is a serious danger, that he is a tyrant, and that his pursuit of… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Wretched men cringe before tyrants who have no power, the victims of their trivial hopes and fears. They do not realise that… — Boethius Copy Share Image
The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind. The tyrants continue to… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I remember that throughout history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for… — Jean Vanier 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
The monster has escaped Elba!" "The tyrant has landed at Cannes!" "Bonaparte meets the troops." "Napoleon approaches Paris." "His Imperial Majesty has… — David Frum Copy Share Image
Industrialism, whether of the capitalist or socialist coloration, is the basic tyrant of the modern age. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I do identify the escape hatch through which Foucault eludes the charge that he himself is an author/authority, hence a tyrant. He… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I will be harsh and stern against the aggressor, but I will be a pillar of strength for the weak.I will not… — Umar Copy Share Image
All men are equal and free: society by nature, and destination, is therefore autonomous and ungovernable. If the sphere of activity of… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
