Tyrants Quotes

520 Tyrants quotes by 357 unique authors

International law? I better call my lawyer; he didn't bring that up to me. — George W. Bush
Herein lies a riddle: How can a people so gifted by God become so seduced by naked power, so greedy for money, so addicted to… — Philip Berrigan
No government which governs by the use of force can survive except by force. There is no going back because force begets force and the… — Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into… — Eric Hoffer
I went down on my knees and prayed to Almighty God for light and guidance and one night late it came to me this way.… — William McKinley
It is in the nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know-or care-about circumstances in the colonies. — Bertrand Russell
Never in these long years have we offered any other prayer but this: Lord, grant to our people peace at home, and grant and preserve… — Adolf Hitler
Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them. — Harold Evans
Propaganda replaces moral philosophy. — Hans Morgenthau
There was promulgation of false propaganda by the administration about the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. There was promulgation of false propaganda… — Jimmy Carter
Scientific societies are as yet in their infancy. It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments much more control… — Bertrand Russell
The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life ... A ruling… — George Orwell
The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average… — Bertrand Russell
I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are there no means… — Thomas Jefferson
The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of… — Mark Twain
The most effective means of preventing tyranny is to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more especially to… — Thomas Jefferson
The nation in arms is virtually a communist state: the people must be paid wages and fed and protected and regimented behind the lines as… — Jacques Barzun
They asked if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
We stand for the maintenance of private property... We shall protect free enterprise as the most expedient, or rather the sole possible economic order. — Adolf Hitler
An evil exists that threatens every man, woman, and child of this great nation. We must take steps to ensure our domestic security and protect… — Adolf Hitler
What is hateful is not rebellion but the despotism which induces the rebellion; what is hateful are not rebels but the men, who, having the… — Wilfrid Laurier
Without some form of censorship, propaganda in the strict sense of the word is impossible. In order to conduct propaganda there must be some barrier… — Walter Lippmann
By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home." — Mark Twain
A nation which enslaves another forges its own chains. — Karl Marx
The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No,… — Aldous Huxley

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