Tyrants Quotes - Page 13

Tyrants are always assassinated too late. That is their great excuse.

Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake.

There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.

The people cannot be all, and always well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive.

Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.

A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a people who mean to be free.

Twixt kings and tyrants there's this difference known; Kings seek their subjects' good: tyrants their own.

All the cops are just workers for the one percent, and they don't even realize they're being exploited.

They would be subject to no one, neither to lawful ruler nor to the reign of law, but would be altogether and absolutely free. That is the way they got their tyrants, for either servitude or freedom, when it goes to extremes, is an utter bane, while either in due measure is altogether a boon.

Sow seed--but let no tyrant reap; Find wealth--let no imposter heap; Weave robes--let not the idle wear; Forge arms--in your defence to bear.

I do not see why I should be polite to tyrants, who slobber of humanitarianism and think only of their own petty interests.

This focus on money and power may do wonders in the marketplace, but it creates a tremendous crisis in our society. People who have spent all day learning how to sell themselves and to manipulate others are in no position to form lasting friendships or intimate relationships... Many Americans hunger for a different kind of society - one based on principles of caring, ethical and spiritual sensitivity, and communal solidarity. Their need for meaning is just as intense as their need for economic security.

One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.

My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.

Power is a dangerous thing. Be careful that you don't abuse it or let it make a tyrant of you.

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything.

It is asserted by most respectable writers upon our government, that a well-regulated militia, composed of the yeomanry of the country, have ever been considered the bulwark of a free people. Tyrants have never placed any confidence on a militia composed of freemen.

In the States, I learned to fight for every idea. Sometimes, a director has to be a tyrant to keep the quality.

Intellectuals and celebrities venerated monsters like Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, & Ho Chi Minh. The New Left of the 1960s didn't have a change of heart, just a change of icons from Stalin to third world tyrants. The homicidal and sadistic Che Guevara is still held up as a hero.