We take a fancy to something: and scarcely have we thoroughly taken a fancy to it when that tyrant in us calls… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
WEAKNESSES, n.pl. Certain primal powers of Tyrant Woman wherewith she holds dominion over the male of her species, binding him to the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his. — William Lloyd Garrison 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
“Stability and security are just illusions. But they are necessary illusions because without them there would be no way of going on.” — Andrew Crofts 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
The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The law is a great thing,--because men are poor and weak, and bad. And it is great, because where it exists in… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant… — Etienne de La Boetie Copy Share Image
Intolerance of oppression, the desire to be free and develop one personality to its full limits, is not enough to make one… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
The civil authority, or that part of it which remained faithful to their trust and true to the ends of the covenant,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property… — Daniel De Leon Copy Share Image
If Truth is taken away from us, then Right and Wrong are taken from us as well. If we don't know Right… — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
In the creative process, my ego has always been a huge tyrant ... a dictator and kind of rude and very misleading,… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
The law is an expression of God 's holy will and as such must be honored and loved," said the preacher piously.… — Anthony de Mello 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
Most of the nations around the world are led by tyrants and dictators and thugs who are leading their countries for one… — Rush Limbaugh 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
“unfeeling tyrants” who cared no more for their subjects’ lives “than…so many caterpillars upon an apple tree.” — Michael B. Oren Copy Share Image
How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Lacan is a tyrant who must be driven from our shores. Narrowly trained English professors who know nothing of art history or… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Dictators from the past, tyrants, were not unaware that it is easier to govern and enslave a nation of drinkers than that… — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
Was not necessity the plea of every illegal exertion of power or exercise of oppression?...Necessity is the plea for very infringement of… — William Pitt Copy Share Image
Michael Moore: a man who never without an excuse for keeping murdering tyrants in power. But now he's supporting the man who… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
A spoiled saint, a Pharisee, an inquisitor, or a magician, makes better sport to Hell than a mere common tyrant or debauchee. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a law of bondage; and if it respect the hand of God which sometimes raises up tyrants, it draws… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
Instead of trying to see things my way, I try to see things her [wife's] way, and if it honestly makes sense… — Tony Gaskins Copy Share Image
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Wherever you see a wall, demolish it to broaden the horizons of the world! Wherever you see a tyrant, take him down… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Neither can oath nor promise bind any such people to obey and maintain tyrants against God and against his truth known. — John Knox Copy Share Image
Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their… — C. S. Lewis 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
Throughout the history of mankind there have been murderers and tyrants; and while it may seem momentarily that they have the upper… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Tyranny has no need of arts or sciences, for its policy, which is very shallow and without any refinement, only consists in… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. In order to flourish, the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A great nation like the United States has many and varied interests, and we need both to do business with tyrants and… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image