Tyrants Quotes · Page 11

If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.

— James F. Cooper

Through talk, we tamed kings, restrained tyrants, averted revolution

— Tony Benn

The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.

— Patrick Henry

Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy.

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.

— Emily Bronte

To imitate the hatred and violence of tyrants and murderers is the best way to take their place.

— Pope Francis

In buskined measures move Pale Grief and pleasing Pain, With Horror, tyrant of the throbbing breast.

— Thomas Gray

The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.

— Stendhal

Without some form of censorship, propaganda in the strict sense of the word is impossible. In order to conduct propaganda there must…

— Walter Lippmann

It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with their daily…

— Aristotle

Mugabe's resignation fascinates because the fall of tyrants is always a family story, decline of the father, writ large. What a strange…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap…

— Emma Thompson

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

The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of…

— Horace

When dictators and tyrants seek to destroy the freedoms of men, their first target is the legal profession and through it the…

— Leon Jaworski

There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly terrible to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a free press.

— Samuel

Wrought upon at length, you may say, by an enthusiasm and frenzy that could brook no control - I burst the tyrant…

— Deborah Sampson

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

But we know that freedom cannot be served by the devices of the tyrant. As it is an ancient truth that freedom…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

We need to remember that the separation of church and state must never mean the separation of religious values from the lives…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

A false friend, an unjust judge, a braggart, hypocrite, and tyrant, sincere in hatred, jealous, vain and revengeful, false in promise, honest…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I had gradually come, by this time [1839-01], to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world,…

— Charles Darwin

Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special,…

— Edward Said

“Why do they do this? Because it gives them a license to act like tyrants and to feel like saints. “Do what…

— John Holt

The universal methodology of the tyrant is always incrementalism.

— Derek R. Audette

The goal of tyrants is tyranny, and the goal of tyranny is tyranny.

— Donald James

A magistrate is not a father; he must be just and severe. Only tyrants are fathers.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.

— Thomas Jefferson

“Politics is the purview of scoundrels, tyrants, and fools.”

— Jim Butcher

“Tyrants seek the hook on which to hang you. Try not to have hooks.”

— Timothy Snyder

Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey.

— Anonymous

Neither Britain, a land fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets.

— St. Jerome

Insane!... Ask the tyrant who is his most dangerous foe, the sane man or the insane?

— Henry David Thoreau

The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.

— Horace

The women's movement is filled with tyrants, just as men's political movements are equally filled.

— Norman Mailer

Martyrs have been sincere. And so have tyrants. Wise men have been sincere. And so have fools.

— E. Haldeman-Julius

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

— Edmund Burke

“Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.”

— William Penn

Power is a dangerous thing. Be careful that you don't abuse it or let it make a tyrant of you.

— Louisa May Alcott

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

— Frederick Douglass