Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
Public Opinion, this invisible, intangible, omnipresent, despotic tyrant; this thousand-headed Hydra - the more dangerous for being composed of individual mediocrities... — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Of all insults, the temporary condescension of a master to a slave is the most outrageous and galling. That potentate who most… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims. — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
Modern tyrants are terror managers. Do not allow your shock to be turned against your freedom. — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
Neither Britain, a land fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets. — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
It is asserted by most respectable writers upon our government, that a well-regulated militia, composed of the yeomanry of the country, have… — John L. DeWitt Copy Share Image
In the larger sense, however, the personal ownership of firearms is only secondarily a matter of defense against the criminal. Note the… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
Civilization after civilization, it is the same. The world falls to tyranny with a whisper. The frightened are ever keen to bow… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. — Socrates Copy Share Image
The problem of values arises only when men try to fit together their need to be social animals with their need to… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have to bring stability to Iraq, otherwise we will be faced with a future dilemma of sending our loved ones into… — Jay Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Since bad men find the rule of kings no less burdensome than that of tyrants, the recognition of the right of private… — William Archibald Dunning Copy Share Image
If women were in charge of everything, there would be women tyrants. If black people were in charge, there would be black… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
The tyrant should take heed to what he doth, Since every victim-carrion turns to use, And drives a chariot, like a god… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
We don't have to settle for Freedom Caucus tactics - those guys are tyrants. We don't have to accept that. In fact,… — Michael Bennet Copy Share Image
It is lawful and hath been held so through all ages for any one who have the power to call to account… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Insane!... Ask the tyrant who is his most dangerous foe, the sane man or the insane? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Ay, down to the dust with them, slaves as they are! From this hour let the blood in their dastardly veins, That… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Truth ever lovely - since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man. — Thomas Campbell Copy Share Image
