“Kings will be tyrants from policy when subjects are rebels from principle,” Burke writes.” — Yuval Levin Copy Share Image
Muse is a tyrant. It gets you out of bed in the twilight of the morning and forces you to create something! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Why should I trade one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away? — Benjamin Martin Copy Share Image
In this, our age of infamy Man's choice is but to be A tyrant, traitor, prisoner: No other choice has he. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would rather deal with a tyrant any day than a committee. Committees, as a general rule, aren’t willing to take chances,… — Hal Riney Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of rebellion. The first is one in which the slave demands something that the tyrant has got. The… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Work becomes at once a delight and a tyrant. For even when the time comes and you can relax, you hardly know… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him to save,… — Cato the Younger Copy Share Image
O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu. [Fr., Amour! Amour! quand tu nous tiens On peut… — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
I do not see why I should be polite to tyrants, who slobber of humanitarianism and think only of their own petty… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
When politicians don black robes and seize powers they do not have, they should be called out for what they are -… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
Tyrants always condemn and seek to replace the market process with government coercion because tyrants do not trust that people behaving voluntarily… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Conformities are called for much more eagerly today than yesterday... skeptics, liberals, individuals with a taste for private life and their own… — Isaiah Berlin 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
Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I have long been convinced that the idea of liberty is abhorrent to most human beings. What they want is security, not… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Human beings today are surrounded by huge institutions we can never penetrate: the City, the banking system, political and advertising conglomerates, vast… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How many does it take to metamorphose wickedness into righteousness? One man must not kill. If he does, it is murder… But… — Adin Ballou Copy Share Image
With the indiscriminate nature of modern military technology (no such thing as a "smart bomb," it turns out) all wars are wars… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Words are freeborn, and not the vassals of the gruff tyrants of prose to do their bidding only. They have the same… — Abraham Coles Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Wars of aggression are the most barbarous of all human endeavors and are, more often than not, the instruments of insane tyrants… — Rodrigue Tremblay Copy Share Image
“Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannise their teachers.” — Socrates Copy Share Image
As William Penn put it: "Those people who are not governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." Remember... that those tyrants… — Wayne Dyer 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
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
Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on… — Tim Bishop Copy Share Image
... one of the things the tyrant most cunningly engineers is the gross over-simplification of language, because propaganda requires that the minds… — Geoffrey Hill Copy Share Image
“Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation,… — George Mason Copy Share Image
“But now I am beginning to understand we all become tyrants beneath our own roof slates. Or maybe we don't; maybe it's… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And I cannot, cannot… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
Verily, the index finger that testifies to the oneness of Allah Azzawajal in prayer, utterly rejects to write even an alphabet, endorsing… — Sayyid Qutb Copy Share Image
If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say:… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Adding an overarching tier of tyrants - the EU - to European governments has benefited Europeans as a second hangman enhances the… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Unlike monarchs, who pass power to their heirs at the moment of death to ensure the survival of the regime, tyrants must… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image