Tyrants Quotes

520 Tyrants quotes by 357 unique authors

. . . in America, we have achieved the Orwellian prediction - enslaved, the people have been programmed to love their bondage and are left… — Gerry Spence
All the cops are just workers for the one percent, and they don't even realize they're being exploited. — Ray Lewis
Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis. He snatched the lightning from the sky and the sceptre from tyrants. — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune
The purpose and effect of [land titles] have been to maintain, in the hands of robber, or slave holding class, a monopoly of all lands,… — Lysander Spooner
There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by… — Viola Spolin
All men are equal and free: society by nature, and destination, is therefore autonomous and ungovernable. If the sphere of activity of each citizen is… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Why should I trade one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away? — Benjamin Martin
The monster has escaped Elba!" "The tyrant has landed at Cannes!" "Bonaparte meets the troops." "Napoleon approaches Paris." "His Imperial Majesty has entered the capital. — David Frum
I would rather be my own tyrant than have someone else tyrannize me. — Henry Flagler
Michael Moore: a man who never without an excuse for keeping murdering tyrants in power. But now he's supporting the man who bombed Milosevic into… — Andrew Sullivan
Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of… — Thomas Gray
When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I turn liberal, they… — Emile Zola
Liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother. — Camille Paglia
The tyrant is nothing but a slave turned inside out. — Herbert Spencer
The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the keystone of human progress,… — Benjamin Disraeli
Compassion and shame come over one who considers how precarious is the origin of the proudest of living beings: often the smell of a lately… — Pliny the Elder
Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke. — William C. Bryant
The consent of the governed" is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well. — Walter Lippmann
Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss. — William Shakespeare
Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when… — Victor Hugo
Tyrants are but the spawn of Ignorance, Begotten by the slaves they trample on. — James Russell Lowell
When you stop a dictator, there are always risks. But there are greater risks in not stopping a dictator. — Margaret Thatcher
Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation. — Walter Savage Landor
If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty,… — Joseph Brodsky
Flight is lawful, when one flies from tyrants. — Jean Racine

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