How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints. — Anonymous 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
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
Hitler had a lot of Jews high up in the hierarchy of the Third Reich. Color does not necessarily denote quality, content… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have to face… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Of old, the demagogue was also a general, and then democracies changed into tyrannies. Most of the ancient tyrants were originally demagogues.… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The pro-gun advocates point to the 2nd amendment of America's Constitution, citing Americans' right to bear arms as a protection against tyrants.… — Max Keiser Copy Share Image
I came into the world charged with the duty to uphold the right in every place, to destroy sin and evil... the… — Guru Gobind Singh Copy Share Image
The Founding Fathers did not believe the primary purpose of their guns was to hunt ducks, but to keep the government in… — John Coleman Copy Share Image
To say that subjects in general are not proper judges (of the law) when their governors oppress them and play the tyrant,… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
When a man tells me he's run out of steam in the sex department, I'll tell him, 'Count your blessings; you've escaped… — Richard J. Needham Copy Share Image
Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
When we have but the will to do it, that very moment will Justice be done: that very instant the tyrants of… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Every one with this writ may be a tyrant in a legal manner, also may control, imprison, or murder any one within… — James Otis Copy Share Image
John Paul II spoke to the commoner and to the king, to the tyrant and to the democrat in that same language… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
Thomas Jefferson said, The tree of liberty must be fertilized from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Yeah… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
Still let my tyrants know, I am not doomed to wear Year after year in gloom, and desolate despair; A messenger of… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
Anywhere in the world if you see a president holding his chair tightly, that man is either a thief or a tyrant,… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Time and again in this century, the political map of the world was transformed. And ineach instance a new world order came… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor… — Horace 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
“Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has… — John Le Carre Copy Share Image
With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
Do you want to know something about tyrants? When faced with death, they weep and they beg just like the rest of… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
The method of rule of the tyrant and the oligarch is quite simply to clobber, coerce, or overawe all or most other… — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
Moses lifting up his wand, and dividing the Red Sea, and Pharaoh in his chariot overwhelmed with the waters. This motto: "Rebellion… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The aspiring tyrants of today have not forgotten the lesson of 1933: that acts of terror - real or fake, provoked or… — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
Once the law is broken with impunity, each man regains the right to any means he deems proper or necessary in order… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
“Like all true tyrants, he has divided them, and makes them spend their heart’s hatred on one another.” “But” — Mayne Reid Copy Share Image
“We have to hand it to the little tyrants who devise the picturesque abuses of authority that give the moral populace the… — John Popielaski Copy Share Image
It's important to remember that Bush Derangement Syndrome on the left - comparing him to Hitler, calling him a terrorist and a… — John Avlon Copy Share Image
That is why our masters in Washington are so anxious to disarm us. They are not afraid of criminals. They are afraid… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image