Babylon Quote by Victor Hugo

“That figure stood for a long time wholly in the light; this arose from a certain legendary dimness evolved by the majority of heroes,…

— Victor Hugo

Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.

— Walter Savage Landor

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.

— Walter Bagehot

[The] events by which the fate of nations is not materially changed, leave a faint impression on the page of history, and the patience…

— Edward Gibbon

“ Tacitus appears to have been as great an enthusiast as Petrarch for the revival of the republic and universal empire. He has exerted…

— John Adams

My task is not to tyrannize but to destroy tyrants.

— Cesare Borgia

“You see, however, which is called the Court of Rome, and which neither you nor any man can deny to be more corrupt than…

— Martin Luther

“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

A tyrant does not remain in the world; But the curse on him abides forever!

— Bill Vaughan

“It doesn't matter when. Tyrants have been regarded as wicked since olden times, but the twentieth century is full of the tyrants of whom…

— Sōseki Natsume

The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.

— Patrick Henry

“Therefore, arguing that a modern day Daughter of Babylon arising again in Iraq will be destroyed because ancient Babylon conquered Jerusalem over 2,600 years…

— John Price