Beaten Quote by David Hume

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and…

— David Hume

Whether one has a favorable or unfavorable opinion of unions, their demise is also the demise of countervailing power. A system in which there…

— Paul Craig Roberts

I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.

— Ma Jian

“Ruthlessness is not power. Tyranny is not strength.”

— Elly Blake

The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people…

— Thomas Jefferson

If opinion hath lighted the lamp of thy name, endeavor to encourage it with thy own oil, lest it go out and stink; the…

— Francis Quarles

Were a stranger to drop on a sudden into this world, I would show him, as a specimen of its ills, a hospital full…

— David Hume

Could beauty be beaten out, O youth the cities have sent to strike at each other's strength, it is you who have kept her…

— Hilda Doolittle

You could be beaten down by anybody and by everybody and it doesn't matter what everybody else thinks it's how you see yourself and…

— Mark Cuban

I know from my own clinical work that when people are beaten and hurt, they numb out so that they cant feel anymore.

— John Bradshaw

Class clowns are never allowed to date anybody decent, but you don't get beaten up, you're invited to parties, and everybody likes you.

— Dan Harmon

“I felt my heart skip a beat, just one, but it was enough that I took notice. It was nice to know that the…

— C.M. Stunich

It's always a wake-up call to get beaten.

— Usain Bolt

It's kind of the yin and yang that fascinate me. That for all the evil men do, there are also people who work obnoxiously…

— Lisa Gardner

I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them.

— Rita Dove