Tyrants Quotes

520 Tyrants quotes by 357 unique authors

The automobile, practical since 1906, was proceeding to disintegrate and stamp anew the pattern of communication, manners, and city life in the United States, by… — Russell Kirk
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them. ... Love… — Thomas Jefferson
It is heroic to prepare for war with a tyrant power. Patriots will always win the admiration of mankind for daring to meet the bloodshed… — John Boyle O'Reilly
Of all insults, the temporary condescension of a master to a slave is the most outrageous and galling. That potentate who most condescends, mark him… — Herman Melville
Charlie Hebdo: Satire was the father of true political freedom, born in the 18th century; the scourge of bigots and tyrants. Sing its praises. — Simon Schama
The Allies had made war on Napoleon as a tyrant and an oppressor of nations; yet once they had got him out of the way,… — J. Christopher Herold
The power of the press in America is a primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping political power is unrestrained… — Theodore White
Twixt kings and tyrants there's this difference known; Kings seek their subjects' good: tyrants their own. — Robert Herrick
Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and… — Samuel Adams
Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men of… — Aristotle
More terrorists are given training and sanctuary in the United States than anywhere on earth. They include mass murderers, torturers, former and future tyrants and… — John Pilger
There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly terrible to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a free press. — Samuel
Hold firm to your vision but don't be a tyrant on set, — Werner Herzog
WEAKNESSES, n.pl. Certain primal powers of Tyrant Woman wherewith she holds dominion over the male of her species, binding him to the service of her… — Ambrose Bierce
No tyranny is more cruel than the one practised in the shadow of the laws and under color of justice - when, so to speak,… — Baron de Montesquieu
I had gradually come, by this time [1839-01], to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world, with the Tower… — Charles Darwin
It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate… — Helen Dunmore
Hey, this is Europe. We took it from nobody; we won it from the bare soil that the ice left. The bones of our ancestors,… — Ken MacLeod
I loved Jack Ford. I got him in his later days, and he was a total tyrant and a total autocrat and an Irish drunk.… — Richard Widmark
In the 21st Century, the community of nations may see more and more of this very kind of threat that Iraq poses now - a… — Sandy Berger
We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has… — Carl Levin
Thou tyrant, tyrant Jealousy, Thou tyrant of the mind! — John Dryden
As for the petty little world of journalism, the media demonstrates how it, more than anyone, is careful to traffic only in authorized ideas and… — Robert Faurisson
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted. — Christian Nestell Bovee

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