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Tyrant Quotes

Voltaire quote: "Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support..."
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them. Voltaire
Charles Caleb Colton quote: "Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the..."
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind. Charles Caleb Colton
Edmund Burke quote: "Tyrants seldom want pretexts."
Tyrants seldom want pretexts. Edmund Burke
George Santayana quote: "Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of..."
Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them. George Santayana
...Man has a tyrant, ignorance. I voted for the demise of that particular tyrant. That particular tyrant has engendered royalty, which is authority based on falsehood, whereas science is authority based on truth. Man should be governed by science alone."And conscience," added the bishop."It's the same thing. Conscience is the quota of innate science we each have inside us. Victor Hugo
I mean that man is ruled by a tyrant whose name is Ignorance, and that is the tyrant I sought to overthrow. That is the tyrant which gave birth to monarchy, and monarchy is authority based on falsehood, whereas knowledge is authority based on truth. Man should be ruled by knowledge. Victor Hugo
Howard Zinn quote: "When you fight a war against a tyrant, who do you kill? You..."
When you fight a war against a tyrant, who do you kill? You kill the victims of the tyrant. Howard Zinn
A God who kept tinkering with the universe was absurd; a God who interfered with human freedom and creativity was tyrant. If God is seen as a self in a world of his own, an ego thatrelates to a thought, a cause separate from its effect. he becomes a being, not Being itself. An omnipotent, allknowing tyrant is not so different from earthly dictators who make everything andeverybody mere cogs in the machine which they controlled. An atheism that rejects such a God is amply justified. Karen Armstrong
Voldemort himself created his own worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? J. K. Rowling
George Byron quote: "Can tyrants but by tyrants conquered be"
Can tyrants but by tyrants conquered be George Byron
Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm. James Otis
A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne. Georges Clemenceau
Patrick Henry quote: "It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains."
It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains. Patrick Henry
Clarence Darrow quote: "Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects."
Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects. Clarence Darrow
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. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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