Defence Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tyrants forego all respect for humanity in proportion as they are sunk beneath it. Taught to believe themselves of a different species, they really…

— William Hazlitt

He [Jesus] fought and conquered. On the one hand, he was man who struggled for his fathers and through his obedience cancelled their disobedience.…

— Irenaeus of Lyons

“That God should play the tyrant over man is a dismal story of unrelieved oppression; that man should play the tyrant over man is…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“Every man has felt himself to be the equal of a god at certain moments. But this comes from the fact that in a…

— Albert Camus

Man is the same today that he has always been. He is a rebel against God. He may, in some generations, hide his rebellion…

— Donald Barnhouse

Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has…

— Ayn Rand

Man is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him.

— Lucretia Mott

Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural…

— Edmund Burke

A man's enemies have no power to harm him, if he is true to himself and loyal to God.

— John Bartholomew Gough

It has always happened that tyrants, in order to strengthen their power, have made every effort to train their people not only in obedience…

— Etienne de La Boetie

“We teach that even though Jesus allowed His rights to be trampled, we should fight for ours. We teach that even though Jesus lived…

— Francis Chan

“You cannot mend the chromosome, quell the earthquake, or stanch the flood. You cannot atone for the dead tyrants’ murders and you alone cannot…

— Annie Dillard