Quotes of Despot - somelinesforyou

“ It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ Nature has left this tincture in the blood,That all men would be tyrants if they could. ”

- Daniel Defoe

“ The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants. ”

- Bertrand Barere de Vieuzac

“ I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom — for himself. ”

- Elbert Hubbard

“ When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it always. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Hail Caesar, those who are about to die salute you. ”

- Gladiator’s Salute

“ Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear. ”

- Alan Corenk

“ What millions died that Caesar might be great? ”

- Joseph Campbell

“ I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade; and that good Lord will forgive me, that's his. ”

- Catherine the Great

“ How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! ”

- Samuel Adams

“ A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover — but will sooner or later find a tyrant. ”

- Lord Byron

“ What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, the Caesars and Napoleons will arise to make them miserable. ”

- Aldous Huxley

“ Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods. ”

- Will Durant

“ Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen. ”

- Henry Vaughan

“ Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader. ”

- Oriana Fallaci

“ I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant. ”

- Oriana Fallaci

“ The tyrant, it has been said, is but a slave turned inside out. ”

- Samuel Smiles

“ In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People. ”

- Eugene V. Debs

“ A tyrant is but like a king upon a stage, a man in a vizor, and acting the part of a king in a play: he is not really a king. ”

- John Milton

“ The tyrant nowTrusts not to men: nightly within his chamberThe watch-dog guards his couch, the only friendHe now dare trust. ”

- Joanna Baillie

“ Tyrants are rebels against the first laws of heaven and society: to oppose their ravages is an instinct of nature, the inspiration of God in the heart of man. ”

- Josiah Quincy

“ The bodies of tyrants are generally embalmed in their own blood. ”

- Saadi

“ Let a tyrant die that people may live. ”

- John Pym

“ I knew him tyrannous, and tyrants' fearsDecrease not, but grow faster than the years. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ A company of tyrants is inaccessible to all seductions. ”

- Voltaire
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