Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords. — John Sterling Copy Share Image
Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad. — William Rounseville Alger Copy Share Image
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Industrialism, whether of the capitalist or socialist coloration, is the basic tyrant of the modern age. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions,… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Democracy is a kingless regime infested by many kings who are sometimes more exclusive, tyrannical and destructive than one, even if he… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
I love something: and scarcely do I love it completely when the tyrant in me says: "I want that in sacrifice." This… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
A hurt body and mind aren't just like a dictatorship; they are a dictatorship. There is no tyrant as merciless as pain,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him... Those who… — William Penn Copy Share Image
If we start creating our own maps, our own world, our own vision, then there's no way for the cultural tyrants to… — Alex Jones Copy Share Image
If women were in charge of everything, there would be women tyrants. If black people were in charge, there would be black… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Herein lies a riddle: How can a people so gifted by God become so seduced by naked power, so greedy for money,… — Philip Berrigan Copy Share Image
When a man is just and firm in his purpose, The citizens burning to approve a wrong Or the frowning looks of… — Horace Copy Share Image
Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "emergency". It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A new fascism promises security from the terror of crime. All that is required is that we take away the criminals' rights… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
[Slave] trade ... is the most shocking violation of the law of nature, has a direct tendency to diminish ... liberty, and… — James Otis Copy Share Image
Theocracy is the worst of all governments. If we must have a tyrant, a robber baron is far better than an inquisitor.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Try this thought experiment. Pretend you're a tyrant. Among your many liberty-destroying objectives are extermination of blacks, Jews and Catholics. Which would… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
The Jehovah of the Jews is a suspicious tyrant, who breathes nothing but blood, murder, and carnage, and who demands that they… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical,… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Mew," the kitten retorted, locking gazes with him. It had the expression common to all kittens, that of a tyrant in the… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
“Tyrants are willing to commit to anything…including mass murder to maintain their domination over every human being alive. They abuse the lives… — R.G. Risch Copy Share Image
“For resistance to succeed, two boundaries must be crossed. First, ideas about change must engage people of various backgrounds who do not… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also… — George Orwell Copy Share Image