The political lives of tyrants play out human affairs with a special intensity: the death of a democratic leader long after his… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
It is true that one of the first acts of tyrants is to erase history, to wipe out the recorded memory of… — Rene Balcer Copy Share Image
Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
A tyrant does not remain in the world; But the curse on him abides forever! — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Whilst so much is being done in the world, to ameliorate the condition of mankind, and the spirit of Freedom is marching… — James Forten Copy Share Image
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We live in an age of prejudice, dissimulation and paradox, wherein, like dry leaves caught in a whirlpool, some of us are… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special,… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
I firmly believed we should not march into Baghdad ...To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
We stand for the maintenance of private property... We shall protect free enterprise as the most expedient, or rather the sole possible… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant. — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Democracies have been, and governments called, free; but the spirit of independence and the consciousness of unalienable rights, were never before transfused… — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with their daily… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Everything necessary to understand my grandfather lies between two stories: the story of the tiger’s wife, and the story of the deathless… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
The women's movement is filled with tyrants, just as men's political movements are equally filled. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form… — George Washington Copy Share Image
In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary. — Emile M. Cioran 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
Tyrants and dictators have incited hatred against ethnic and religious minorities for centuries in order to consolidate power for themselves. — Bob Menendez Copy Share Image
When a man is just and firm in his purpose, The citizens burning to approve a wrong Or the frowning looks of… — Horace Copy Share Image
I can never acknowledge the right of slavery. I will bow down to no deity however worshipped by professing Christians - however… — Thaddeus Stevens Copy Share Image
