Tyrants Quotes

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If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject... — William Graham Sumner
Morality is stronger than tyrants. — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him... Those who will not be… — William Penn
Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations.Imagine the brain, that… — Diane Ackerman
Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer. — Ben Jonson
The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to… — Sigmund Freud
Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant. — Edward Gibbon
As William Penn put it: "Those people who are not governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." Remember... that those tyrants are often self-imposed… — Wayne Dyer
One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants. — Marquis de Sade
Where once a tyrant had to wish that his subjects had but one common neck that he might strangle them all at once, all he… — Richard Mitchell
The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a… — Joseph Conrad
What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not… — Thomas Jefferson
'Useful,' and 'necessity' was always 'the tyrant's plea'. — C.S. Lewis
I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who… — H. L. Mencken
Try this thought experiment. Pretend you're a tyrant. Among your many liberty-destroying objectives are extermination of blacks, Jews and Catholics. Which would you prefer, a… — Walter E. Williams
Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism. — John F. Kennedy
Whenever a man believes that he has the exact truth from God, there is in that man no spirit of compromise. He has not the… — Robert Green Ingersoll
One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep… — Joseph Story
Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the effect of such [gun control] laws is to place the individual at the mercy of… — Robert A. Heinlein

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