Greater good Quote by Karen Marie Moning

What is the greater good but tyranny’s chameleon?

— Karen Marie Moning

“The shrewd, like chameleons, embrace change by using it to their advantage.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“I am becoming a tyrant, threatening in place of convincing. Unstable instead of steadying. I am suited to the shadows, to the art of…

— Holly Black

“A beggar is as vulnerable as a chameleon.”

— Goitsemang Mvula

“Human beings betray their worst failings when they marvel to find that a world ruler is neither foolishly indolent, presumptuous, nor cruel.”

— Marguerite Yourcenar

“Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”

— Thomas Paine

“In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion,…

— Eugene Victor Debs

“...like the emperor striding confidently along without clothes, convinced by them and their inward monitions that their criticism is effecting changes in society.”

— Samuel Pickering

“Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do…

— John Le Carre

“tyranny cannot stand forever. It is an ugly beast that must feed. Eventually, the Empire will devour everything it has, and will turn on…

— Christie Golden

“(...) I, for one, prize less The name of king than deeds of kingly power; And so would all who learn in wisdom’s school.”

— Sophocles

“Power, money, lusts of the flesh and any other desire which takes a man, a family, a village or a nation from peace or…

— Jaime Buckley