The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Twixt kings and tyrants there's this difference known; Kings seek their subjects' good: tyrants their own. — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
“Kings will be tyrants by policy when subjects are rebels from principle.” — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is outrageous that the Queen has invited royal tyrants to celebrate her diamond jubilee. — Peter Tatchell Copy Share Image
Dissembling courtesy! How fine this tyrant can trickle when she wounds! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either… — Emile M. Cioran 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
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
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
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
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
The power of the press in America is a primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping political… — Theodore White Copy Share Image
The problem of values arises only when men try to fit together their need to be social animals with their need to… — Jacob Bronowski 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
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
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
A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues… — Doris Lessing 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
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
At that moment, in the sunset on Watership Down, there was offered to General Woundwort the opportunity to show whether he was… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
On a day when all Americans, regardless of party affiliation, are celebrating the growth of freedom and honoring the sacrifices of American… — Ken Mehlman Copy Share Image
The Past is dead, and has no resurrection; but the Future is endowed with such a life, that it lives to us… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
They've got something they do it with, I think it's called a mocracy, and it means everyone in the whole country can… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
This focus on money and power may do wonders in the marketplace, but it creates a tremendous crisis in our society. People… — Michael Lerner Copy Share Image
America has entered a great struggle that tests our strength, and even more our resolve. Our nation is patient and steadfast. We… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
