Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“If not for tragedy, tyrants, and injustice, there would be nothing to awaken and inspire dormant heroes. There is always a balance.… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
Fear is a psychic tyrant that has no intention of letting its slave go free. It will say whatever it needs to… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics… — Robert A. Dahl Copy Share Image
Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a government; it is only a… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Just wage a total war against these tyrants; I think we will do very well and our children will sing great songs… — Michael A. Ledeen Copy Share Image
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them. There is almost… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Since men do not really respect anything unless it was established long ago and has developed slowly over time, those who want… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I never revolted in vain, as a rebel or as a tyrant, but I rose seeking reformation for the nation of my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice-- The weakness and the wickedness of… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason so… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
I do identify the escape hatch through which Foucault eludes the charge that he himself is an author/authority, hence a tyrant. He… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
There is only one force of history that can break the reign of hatred and resentment and expose the pretensions of tyrants… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Peoples of Egypt , you will be told that I have come to destroy your religion. Do not believe it! Reply that… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice. — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
I don't really think in terms of the future of literature. I think literature will be around "forever" - but in a… — Nick Antosca Copy Share Image
“Is it not He whose immortal hand... has written there the death sentence of tyrants? He did not create kings to devour… — Maximilien de Robespierre 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
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
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
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
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
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
There is not land beneath the sun where there is an open Bible and a preached gospel, where a tyrant long can… — Charles Spurgeon 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
Social and cultural change, however desirable, should not be effected by the engines of national power. Let us, through persuasion and education,… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Lacy had warned me about Drew the first day of school. Apparently the two of them had gone to some summer camp… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Ever since I arrived to a state of manhood, I have felt a sincere passion for liberty. The history of nations doomed… — Ethan Allen Copy Share Image
What is hateful is not rebellion but the despotism which induces the rebellion; what is hateful are not rebels but the men,… — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share Image
The misfortunes which God is represented in the book of Job as allowing Satan to inflict on Job, merely to test his… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
Formerly, when a king died at Versailles the reign of his successor was immediately announced by the cry: "The king is dead,… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
