Tyrants Quotes

520 Tyrants quotes by 357 unique authors

Part of the main plan of imperialism... is that we will give you your history, we will write it for you, we will re-order the… — Edward Said
Look rather at the teachings of history, true history, not the history written by Party hacks: genuine democracy, the only valid democracy, is nourished with… — Wei Jingsheng
If when I die, I am still a dictator, I will certainly go down into the oblivion of all dictators. If, on the other hand,… — Chiang Kai-shek
I've personally demanded that tyrants let their people go. I've tried to feed the hungry, clothe the poor, protect the elderly and infirm, and defend… — Gary Ackerman
It's important to remember that Bush Derangement Syndrome on the left - comparing him to Hitler, calling him a terrorist and a tyrant - preceded… — John Avlon
One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offence to keep… — Joseph Story
Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad. — William Rounseville Alger
It would seem to me that If this physical life, of which we are now aware, does indeed comprise the entirety of human experience, then… — Derek R. Audette
The universal methodology of the tyrant is always incrementalism. — Derek R. Audette
Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons… — Frederick Douglass
The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants. — Horace
Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels. — Albert Einstein
Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would… — Victor Hugo
There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there are not laws in common,… — Euripides
What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear? — Juvenal
I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact. — Twyla Tharp
The women's movement is filled with tyrants, just as men's political movements are equally filled. — Norman Mailer
The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend He now dare trust. — Joanna Baillie
Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die. — Jacques Delille
Ancient art was the tyrant of Egypt, the mistress of Greece and the servant of Rome. — Henry Fuseli
If you want a war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men are ever subject, because doctrines get inside a… — William Graham Sumner
In this, our age of infamy Man's choice is but to be A tyrant, traitor, prisoner: No other choice has he. — Alexander Pushkin
A magistrate is not a father; he must be just and severe. Only tyrants are fathers. — Napoleon Bonaparte
What constitutes a good manager in this field? He must be knowledgeable in the art with which he is concerned, an impresario, labor negotiator, diplomat,… — John D. Rockefeller
Throughout the history of mankind there have been murderers and tyrants; and while it may seem momentarily that they have the upper hand, they have… — Mahatma Gandhi

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