Interest Quote by Aristotle

It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue…

— Samuel Adams

Ambition and thirst for power have a part but greed and greed alone is the reason for a man wanting to swell his ward.

— Charles Ranlett Flint

“In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority…

— Aristotle

“If a man is ambitious for power, he can have no better supporters than the poor: They are not worried about their own possessions,…

— Sallust

This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is…

— Charles Dickens

The tyrant always talks as if he's preserving the best interests of his people when he actually acts to undermine them.

— Ramman Kenoun

Everyone working on 'Tyrant' wants to present the world and the issues in it in an intelligent, open, fair, non-reductive kind of way. For…

— Adam Rayner

“The lords themselves are responsible for making the poor people their enemy. They do not want to remove the cause of insurrection, so how,…

— Thomas Müntzer

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

— George Santayana

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

— Charles Caleb Colton

What chiefly diverts the men of democracies from lofty ambition is not the scantiness of their fortunes, but the vehemence of the exertions they…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The poor must be wisely visited and liberally cared for, so that mendicity shall not be tempted into mendacity, nor want exasperated into crime.

— Robert Charles Winthrop