Inspirational Quote by Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

“And as the captains gazed south to the Land of Mordor, it seemed to them that, black against the pall of cloud, there rose…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“His thinking was a dusk of doubt and selfmistrust lit up at moments by the lightnings of intuition, but lightnings of so clear a…

— James Joyce

“Sapphique strapped the wings to his arms and flew, over oceans and plains, over glass cities and mountains of gold. Animals fled; people pointed…

— Catherine Fisher

Vertue flies from the heart of a Mercenary man.

— George Herbert

“Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do…

— John Le Carre

The man who flies shall fight again. [Lat., Qui fugiebat, rusus praeliabitur.]

— Demosthenes

His eloquence was of every kind, and he excelled in the argumentative as well as in the declamatory way. But his invectives were terrible,…

— Philip Dormer Stanhope

“Power surged through him: unfettered power, unimaginable power. It coursed through him and gave life to his maddened cry, feeding it, making it unnecesssary…

— Derek Donais

I do identify the escape hatch through which Foucault eludes the charge that he himself is an author/authority, hence a tyrant. He establishes the…

— Paul Fry

Notwithstanding my experiments with electricity the thunderbolt continues to fall under our noses and beards; and as for the tyrant, there are a million…

— Benjamin Franklin

“Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And melting heavens conspired his overthrow.”

— Christopher Marlowe

“Up to that time, the Republic, the Empire, had been to him only monstrous words. The Republic, a guillotine in the twilight; the Empire,…

— Victor Hugo