Despots Quote by Edgar Wallace Download Open image “Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake.” — Edgar Wallace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Despots Fear Racks Snakes Terrible Tyrants
Fear has its use, but cowardice has none. I may not put my finger into the jaws of a snake, but the very sight… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Fear is a great robber of power. It paralyzes the thinking faculties, ruins spontaneity, enthusiasm, and self confidence. It has a blighting effect upon… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Fear is a psychic tyrant that has no intention of letting its slave go free. It will say whatever it needs to say to… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment, freeze reflexes, breed mistakes. Worse, it's contagious. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But fear - panic - knows no reason. It brings into being overnight the things that it fears. It is the greatest torment of… — Robert Collier Copy Share Image
Fear results in fight or flight. Anxiety creates doom and gloom. Fear is the pulse that pounds when you see a coiled rattlesnake in… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“Listen," said T. X., grasping an ivory paperknife savagely in his hand and tapping his blotting-pad to emphasize his words, "you're a pie!” — Edgar Wallace Copy Share Image
“This," said T. X. exultantly, as he read the advertisement, "is where I get busy.” — Edgar Wallace Copy Share Image
“I never did believe in the equality of the sexes, but no girl is the weaker vessel if she gets first grip of the… — Edgar Wallace Copy Share Image
“...mankind is not perfect, less perfect is womankind, and least perfect is that section of mankind which employs servants.” — Edgar Wallace Copy Share Image
An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex. — Edgar Wallace Copy Share Image
“He is very rich, has no relations, and has a passion for power." "Then he'll be hung," said the Chief, rising. "I doubt it,"… — Edgar Wallace Copy Share Image
In the deepest pits of 'Ell, Where the worst defaulters dwell (Charcoal devils used as fuel as you require 'em), There's some lovely coloured… — Edgar Wallace Copy Share Image
A highbrow is a man who has found something more interesting than women. — Edgar Wallace Copy Share Image
“don't know whether there's a law that stops my doing this, Jim; but if there is, you've got to get round it. You're a… — Edgar Wallace Copy Share Image
“I should prefer being thrown to the demnition ducks and drakes," he said moodily.” — Edgar Wallace Copy Share Image
“I sent for you, Mansus, because I suffer from the illusion that you have more brains than most of the people in my department,… — Edgar Wallace Copy Share Image
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
All ideas advanced to deal with the Florentine noise problem, the Florentine traffic problem, are Utopian, and nobody believes in them, just as nobody… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Nothing is more durable than the dynasty of Doubt; for he reigns in the hearts of all his people, but gives satisfaction to none… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Those who disagree with the dictator's plan have no other means to carry on than to defeat the despot by force of arms. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotismat… — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
Muslims, scholars or not, are on the side of the oppressed and never on the side of the oppressors. Some scholars claim they don't… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Ignorant, unconscious and dishonourable part of a society want and like kings, dictators, padishahs and all sort of despots; educated, conscious and honourable part… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The consent of the governed" is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
When the last of the Reformers died, religion, instead of emancipating the nations, had become an excuse for the criminal art of despots. Calvin… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image