Tyrants Quotes

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Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural power… — Edmund Burke
One must never compromise with tyrants. One can only strike at kings through the head. Nothing can be expected from European kings except by force… — Georges Danton
Not as tyrants have we come, but as liberators. — Adolf Hitler
Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants. — Seneca the Younger
Passion has overthrown tyrants and freed prisoners and slaves. Passion has brought justice where there was savagery. Passion has created freedom where there was nothing… — Jim Butcher
When we have but the will to do it, that very moment will Justice be done: that very instant the tyrants of the Earth shall… — Peter Kropotkin
Intolerance of oppression, the desire to be free and develop one personality to its full limits, is not enough to make one an anarchist. That… — Errico Malatesta
Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints. — C.S. Lewis
Democracy is a kingless regime infested by many kings who are sometimes more exclusive, tyrannical and destructive than one, even if he be a tyrant. — Benito Mussolini
Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the blows that the… — Charles Spurgeon
The Principle of Uncertainty fixed once for all the realisation that all knowledge is limited. It is an irony of history that at the very… — Jacob Bronowski
Whilst so much is being done in the world, to ameliorate the condition of mankind, and the spirit of Freedom is marching with rapid strides… — James Forten
There are two kinds of rebellion. The first is one in which the slave demands something that the tyrant has got. The second is one… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The big tyrants never face justice — George Galloway
Civilization after civilization, it is the same. The world falls to tyranny with a whisper. The frightened are ever keen to bow to a perceived necessity, in… — Steven Erikson
There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein's regime is a serious danger, that he is a tyrant, and that his pursuit of lethal weapons of… — Edward Kennedy
Neither can oath nor promise bind any such people to obey and maintain tyrants against God and against his truth known. — John Knox
China is not a superpower, nor will she ever seek to be one... If one day China should change her color and turn into a… — Deng Xiaoping
The king is as much bound by his oath not to infringe the legal rights of the people, as the people are bound to yield… — Jonathan Mayhew
The great masses of men, though theoretically free, are seen to submit supinely to oppression and exploitation of a hundred abhorrent sorts. Have they no… — H. L. Mencken
Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants. — Anthony Trollope
Nor is the guilt entirely with the warmongers, plutocrats and demagogues. If people permit exploitation and regimentation in any name, they deserve their slavery. A… — Jack Parsons
In Iraq #1 we stayed within U.N. mandates, limited our response, went home after Kuwait was freed - and were censured for allowing Shiites and… — Victor Davis Hanson
Now, I ask you, had you not rather be killed than to be a slave to a tyrant, who takes the life of your mother,… — David Walker

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