Brandon-sanderson Quote by Brandon Sanderson

Remember that it is not by a tyrant's words, but only by his deeds that we can know him.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Man is constantly being assured today that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness.”

— Richard M. Weaver

“His own work within government had taught him that there are virtually no limits to a man’s greed and lust for power and wealth.”

— C.A. Fail

“Honesty does not make a man less of a tyrant.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“[It is a] happy truth that man is capable of self-government, and only rendered otherwise by the moral degradation designedly superinduced on him by…

— Thomas Jefferson

“It doesn't matter when. Tyrants have been regarded as wicked since olden times, but the twentieth century is full of the tyrants of whom…

— Sōseki Natsume

“A man has his word, even when he has nothing else to give.”

— Paul W. Feenstra

“Like all true tyrants, he has divided them, and makes them spend their heart’s hatred on one another.” “But”

— Mayne Reid

“When the tyrant is the anonymous law, modern man believes he is free.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“The smart tyrant flatters the people with words,while with deeds he destroys them.”

— Anatoli Rybakov

“No man will ever be whole and dignified and free except in the knowledge that the men around him are whole and dignified and…

— Wendell Berry

“For the sole thing of which any man can be deprived is the present; since this is all he owns, and nobody can lose…

— Marcus Aurelius