Pretext Quote by Aesop Download Open image “The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.” — Aesop ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Pretext Tyranny Tyrants
Remember that it is not by a tyrant's words, but only by his deeds that we can know him. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
A tyrant does not remain in the world; But the curse on him abides forever! — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The tyrant always talks as if he's preserving the best interests of his people when he actually acts to undermine them. — Ramman Kenoun Copy Share Image
The tyrant claims freedom to kill freedom, and yet keep it for himself. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Tyranny is tyranny, no matter what its form; the free man will resist it if his courage serves. — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“Lay not the blame on me, O sailor, but on the winds. By nature I am as calm and safe as the land itself,… — Aesop Copy Share Image
It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray. — Aesop Copy Share Image
Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get… — Aesop Copy Share Image
Every man carries two bags about him, one in front and one behind, and both are full of faults. The bag in front contains… — Aesop Copy Share Image
once upon a time all the rivers combined to protest against the action of the sea in making their waters salt. "When we come… — Aesop Copy Share Image
We must always work, and a self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood. If… — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
Treacherous assassins, enemies of the people, and worthy of everyone's ridicule are those who, under the pretext of guiding future generations, teach them an… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
Of all hostile feelings, envy is perhaps the hardest to be subdued, because hardly any one owns it even to himself, but looks out… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
[Censors are] people with secret attractions to various temptations... They are defending themselves under the pretext of defending others, because at heart they fear… — Ernest Jones Copy Share Image
When observers look back 50 years from now, the arguments supporting Florida's ban on same-sex marriage, though just as sincerely held [as views of… — Robert Lewis Hinkle Copy Share Image
The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
War always reaches the depths of horror because of idiots who perpetuate terror from generation to generation under the pretext of vengeance. — Guy Sajer Copy Share Image
I wrote a study about this question, The Lessons of October, which served as a pretext for my elimination from the government. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
There is nothing an addict likes more, or that serves as better pretext for continuing his present way of life, than to place the… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
There is no family in America without a clock, and consequently there is no fair pretext for the usual Sunday medley of dreadful sounds… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
...the great movement of apostasy being organized in every country for the establishment of a One-World Church which shall have neither dogmas, nor hierarchy,… — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
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