“ How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! ”
- Samuel Adams- Copy
- 394
“ The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea. ”
- John Adams- Copy
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“ Learning is the best of all wealth; it is easy to carry, thieves cannot steal it, the tyrants cannot seize it; neither water nor fire can destroy it; and far from decreasing, it increases by giving. ”
- Naladiyar- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
- 946
“ Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Today the tyrant rules, not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher; he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort. ”
- Marshall McLuhan- Copy
- 1.1K
“ In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws. ”
- Emil Cioran- Copy
- 1.7K
“ The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts. ”
- William Ellery Channing- Copy
- 3.4K
“ The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them. ”
- Emily Bronte- Copy
- 814
“ The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. ”
- Soren Kierkegaard- Copy
- 1.8K
“ 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- Copy
- 2K
“ The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster. ”
- Emil Cioran- Copy
- 3.7K
“ The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab. ”
- Joseph Conrad- Copy
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“ Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average. person. ”
- Dean William R. Inge- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 3.7K
“ More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators. ”
- Dennis Prager- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time. ”
- Douglas Hurd- Copy
- 2.1K
“ It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs. ”
- Gustave Flaubert- Copy
- 2K
“ Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 3.5K
“ A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot. ”
- Thomas B. Macaulay- Copy
- 2.3K
“ My dad was a tyrant. He used to physically beat the crap out of us. ”
- Dennis Wilson- Copy
- 1K
“ I don't think I could be happy as an actor if there was a tyrant on the set. ”
- David Warner- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers. ”
- Richard Perle- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person. ”
- William R. Inge- Copy
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