In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Tyrants are always assassinated too late. That is their great excuse. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
What want these outlaws conquerors should have but history's purchased page to call them great? — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of EMERGENCY. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring… — Plato Copy Share Image
The very freedom which the sinner supposedly exercises in his self-indulgence is only another proof that he is ruled by the tyrant. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Ay, down to the dust with them, slaves as they are! From this hour let the blood in their dastardly veins, That… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Muslims have been subjected to so many tyrants and oppressive regimes. That's what the Arab Spring was about, but the problem comes… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
Who has not seen how women bully women? What tortures have men to endure compared to those daily repeated shafts of scorn… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
The things... which are proper to the understanding no other man is used to impede, for neither fire, nor iron, nor tyrant,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
They would be subject to no one, neither to lawful ruler nor to the reign of law, but would be altogether and… — Plato Copy Share Image
If you want a war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men are ever subject, because doctrines… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
There has never been a humane communist regime. Marxism is inherently totalitarian. It recognizes no moral limits on the state. It’s the… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
If there is no struggle, there is no progress…This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one;… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Today the primary threat to the liberties of the American people comes not from communism, foreign tyrants or dictators. It comes from… — George Allen Copy Share Image
I've personally demanded that tyrants let their people go. I've tried to feed the hungry, clothe the poor, protect the elderly and… — Gary Ackerman Copy Share Image
Hey, this is Europe. We took it from nobody; we won it from the bare soil that the ice left. The bones… — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
It would seem to me that If this physical life, of which we are now aware, does indeed comprise the entirety of… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
Either the State for ever, crushing individual and local life, taking over in all fields of human activity, bringing with it its… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin… — Thomas Jefferson 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
Under the present dispensation, the great majority of factories are little despotisms, benevolent in some cases, malevolent in others. Even where benevolence… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Is it not High Time for the People of this Country explicitly to declare, whether they will be Freemen or Slaves? It… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
People who denounce the free market and voluntary exchange, and are for control and coercion, believe they have more intelligence and superior… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free. — Bill Richardson Copy Share Image
The only way to tyrantproof the presidency is not to elect tyrants to the presidency. — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them. — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
Liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Slavery discourages arts and manufacturing ...[and] every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. — George Mason Copy Share Image
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
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