Tyranny Quote by George Herbert Download Open image “A tyrant is most tyrant to himself” — George Herbert ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Tyranny
Man is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him. — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed to serve… — Richard Jefferies Copy Share Image
A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. — Plato Copy Share Image
A dictator keeps control and leads. A tyrant is someone selfish who destroys. — Alessandra Mussolini Copy Share Image
“In many cities, tyrants were able to seize power by offering to protect the poorer citizens against the rich or vice versa. “Tyrant” is… — Alan Ryan Copy Share Image
I would rather be my own tyrant than have someone else tyrannize me. — Henry Flagler Copy Share Image
Remember that it is not by a tyrant's words, but only by his deeds that we can know him. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
In the house of a Fidler, all fiddle. [In the house of the fiddler all fiddle.] — George Herbert Copy Share Image
By all means use some time to be alone, salute thyself, see what thy soul doth wear. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Every one is weary, the poore in seeking, the rich in keeping, the good in learning. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books). — George Herbert Copy Share Image
There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
When we are capable of living in the moment free from the tyranny of "shoulds," free from the nagging sensation that this moment isn't… — Joan Z. Borysenko Copy Share Image
There's a dishonest tyranny in the liberal/progressive/socialist agenda that comes down and says 'we are here because we care about you; we want what's… — Allen West Copy Share Image
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“...you are strong only as long as you don't deprive people of everything . For a person you've taken everything from is no longer… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny, like with… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny… — Carl Levin Copy Share Image
“If you know only one language, you're a prisoner, stuck in the tyranny of that one language.” — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
Just as Wall Street needs to break the hold of the bonus culture, which drives risk-taking that is rational for individuals but damaging to… — Randy Schekman Copy Share Image
The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
