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
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
You can cite a hundred references to show that the biblical God is a bloodthirsty tyrant, but if they can dig up… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
When you're convinced that you're right and you believe that you have the license to do anything because you're right, you can… — Terry O'Quinn Copy Share Image
“The deceit of the tyrants and brutes is that they create a problem or become a part of the problem then offer… — DAVID OKAFOR Copy Share Image
Public opinion, - a tyrant, sitting in the dark, wrapt up in mystification and vague terrors of obscurity; deriving power no one… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Appeasing the Castro brothers will only cause other tyrants from Caracas to Tehran to Pyongyang to see that they can take advantage… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
The Allies had made war on Napoleon as a tyrant and an oppressor of nations; yet once they had got him out… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share Image
Who shall resist Anti-Christ when he comes if we show such patience towards the vices and crimes of his precursors? By such… — Thomas Becket 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
The most dangerous kind of man is not the one who spent his youth shoving others around. That kind of man gets… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
L'arbre de la liberté croît lorsqu'il est arrosé du sang de toute espèce de tyrans (The tree of liberty grows only when… — Bertrand Barere 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
But you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that one thing you've never been able to kill, no matter how hard… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms,… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein's regime is a serious danger, that he is a tyrant, and that his pursuit of… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to… — George W. Bush 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“unfeeling tyrants” who cared no more for their subjects’ lives “than…so many caterpillars upon an apple tree.” — Michael B. Oren Copy Share Image
