Tyrants Quotes

520 Tyrants quotes by 357 unique authors

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside,… — Bertrand Russell
Religions are the cradles of despotism. — Marquis de Sade
Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them. — George Santayana
Fascism is capitalism plus murder. — Upton Sinclair
The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a government; it is only a natural right to… — Lysander Spooner
The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own eyes. — Randall Terry
It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a… — Emma Thompson
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them. — Voltaire
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination. — Voltaire
Clever tyrants are never punished. — Voltaire
The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice. — Voltaire
I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever. — George C. Wallace
It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice. — Henry A. Wallace
There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of… — Walt Whitman
To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every… — Simone Weil
The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy. — Paul Wellstone
Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes. — Paul Wolfowitz
If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be… — Howard Zinn
Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned. — James Joyce
O serpent heart hid with a flowering face! Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening… — William Shakespeare
A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues can persecute writers… — Doris Lessing
If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It… — Thomas Jefferson
What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act? That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you,… — Marquis de Sade
If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine. — Che Guevara

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