A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
How can tyrants safely govern home, Unless abroad they purchase great alliance. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states. — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
When you fight a war against a tyrant, who do you kill? You kill the victims of the tyrant. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“I believe the vulpine greed of the corporate world is cut from the very same cloth as the tyrant of history.” — Adam Nevill 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
My great objection to this government is, that it does not leave us the means of defending our rights, or of waging… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
The consent of the governed" is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“History immortalises both the names of the greats and the tyrants without making a distinction between them.” — Aziz Hamza Copy Share Image
The Bible has, amazingly- no doubt with supernatural grace-survived its critics. The harder tyrants try to eliminate it and skeptics dismiss it,… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the… — Frederick Douglass 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
Passion has overthrown tyrants and freed prisoners and slaves. Passion has brought justice where there was savagery. Passion has created freedom where… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our teachers were absolute tyrants. They had no sympathy with youth; their one object was to stuff our brains and turn us… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The cold war provided the perfect excuse for Western governments to plunder and exploit the Third World in the name of freedom;… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the… — Carl Levin Copy Share Image
History has a long-range perspective. It ultimately passes stern judgment on tyrants and vindicates those who fought, suffered, were imprisoned, and died… — Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Copy Share Image
Whence all this passion towards conformity anyway? Diversity is the word. Let man keep his many parts and you will have no… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
People of Baghdad, remember for 26 generations you have suffered under strange tyrants who have ever endeavoured to set one Arab house… — Frederick Stanley Maude Copy Share Image
It is said by Bush men and women that we fought (the Iraq War) to strike against terrorism - except that Iraq… — Leonard Pitts Copy Share Image
What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The heroes in paganism correspond exactly to the saints in popery, and holy dervises in MAHOMETANISM. The place of, HERCULES, THESEUS, HECTOR,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
In the larger sense, however, the personal ownership of firearms is only secondarily a matter of defense against the criminal. Note the… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
The Principle of Tolerance, fixed once for all the realization that all knowledge is limited. It is an irony of history that… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
A God who kept tinkering with the universe was absurd; a God who interfered with human freedom and creativity was a tyrant.… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
