Quotes with tyrants

  • Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.
  • Saddam, as most tyrants, was a total control freak. He wanted total control of his regime. Total control of the country. And to introduce a wild card like Al Qaeda in any sense was just something he would not do.
  • He didn't dare to, because his father had a weak heart and habitually threatened to drop dead if anybody hurt his feelings. You may have noticed that people with weak hearts are the tyrants of English married life.

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  • Charles Caleb Colton Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Socrates Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • George Bernard Shaw He didn't dare to, because his father had a weak heart and habitually threatened to drop dead if anybody hurt his feelings. You may have noticed that people with weak hearts are the tyrants of English married life.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bill Richardson Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.
    Bill Richardson
    American politician, author, and diplomat (1947 - )
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  • Abigail Adams In the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If perticular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebelion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.
    Letter to John Adams, 31 March 1776
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Edmund Burke Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Marquis de Sade Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • William Penn Men must be governed by God, or they will be ruled by tyrants.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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  • William Pitt Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
    William Pitt
    British statesman (1759 - 1806)
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  • Marquis de Sade One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Bob Simon Saddam, as most tyrants, was a total control freak. He wanted total control of his regime. Total control of the country. And to introduce a wild card like Al Qaeda in any sense was just something he would not do.
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  • Lord George Byron The dead have been awakened - shall I sleep? The world's at war with tyrants - shall I crouch? the harvest's ripe - and shall I pause to reap? I slumber not; the thorn is in my couch; Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear, its echo in my heart.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Ben Shapiro The greatest bulwark against an overreaching government, as tyrants know, is a religious population. That is because religious people form communities of interest adverse to government control of their lives; religious communities rely on their families and each other rather than an overarching government utilizing force.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson 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
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Albert Camus The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • William Ellery Channing The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • André Malraux Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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