Evil Quote by Aesop

The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.

— Roger L'Estrange

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and…

— Frederick Douglass

This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it…

— Frederick Douglass

People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

Those who seek power are not worthy of that power.

— Plato

As William Penn put it: "Those people who are not governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." Remember... that those tyrants are often…

— Wayne Dyer

A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

— Plato

This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of…

— Philip K. Dick

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

— George Orwell

The most powerful people are not those who are driven by power, but those who empower others.

— Alexander Den Heijer

Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men…

— Aristotle

People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which…

— Jasmine Guy