Noble Quote by Pierre Corneille Download Open image “Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.” — Pierre Corneille ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Noble Treachery Tyranny
“Tyranny is a habit; it may develop, and it does develop at last, into a disease. I maintain that the very best of men… — Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
There is nothing more noble than putting yourself in the line of fire to save a life. — Monica Raymund Copy Share Image
“But reflecting persons perceived that when society is itself the tyrant—society collectively, over the separate individuals who compose it—its means of tyrannizing are not… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Yet there comes a time in the life of a patriot when abdication would amount to a betrayal if not outright treachery. — Olusegun Obasanjo Copy Share Image
Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them. — Barbara Mertz Copy Share Image
There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it. — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When a noble deed is done, who is likely to appreciate it? They who are noble themselves. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Such is the caprice of Romans... who reject kings in name but not in practice, and accept an Emperor mightier than a hundred kings. — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred. — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them. [Fr., A raconter ses maux souvent on les soulage.] — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion. — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
I certainly don't think that the heirs of the American Revolution were a particularly noble class. — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ... We are… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The law is the collective organization of the individual's right to lawful defense of his life, liberty and property. When it is used for… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If he's - the inference is that somehow he thinks slavery is a - is a noble institution I would - I would strongly… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Used with due abstinence, hope acts as a healthful tonic; intemperately indulged, as an enervating opiate. The visions of future triumph, which at first… — James Fitzjames Stephen Copy Share Image
Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
Following the Noble Path is like entering a dark room with a light in the hand; the darkness will all be cleared away, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
