Tyrants Quotes - Page 17

none can be Tyrants but Cowards.

I will not be governed by the tyranny of immediacy.

The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good.

The idea of perfection can be a tyrant you should overthrow, to gain your freedom.

There has never been a humane communist regime. Marxism is inherently totalitarian. It recognizes no moral limits on the state. It’s the most convenient ideology for aspiring tyrants; it also retains its appeal for intellectuals, who have proved equally skillful at rationalizing abuses of power and at exculpating themselves.

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.

Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.

Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.

Thou tyrant, tyrant Jealousy, Thou tyrant of the mind!

The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend He now dare trust.

No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even especially those who are the worst of us. Some of the cruelest tyrants in history were motivated by noble ideals, or made choices they would call "hard but necessary" for the good of their nation. We're all the hero of our own story.

Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt in cold blood. The moment chosen is one of the surest means of distinguishing the work of the legislator from that of the tyrant.

O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu. [Fr., Amour! Amour! quand tu nous tiens On peut bien dire, Adieu, prudence.]

Every one with this writ may be a tyrant in a legal manner, also may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.

Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.

Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die.

Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress?

The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.

The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them.

None but tyrants have any business to be afraid.

Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny.

International law? I better call my lawyer; he didn't bring that up to me.

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny