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Tyrants Quotes (page 5)

this is what you shall do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning god, have patience and indulgence toward the people...re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss what insults your very soul, and your very flesh shall become a great poem. Walt Whitman
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider to be God-fearing and pious. Aristotle
Thomas Jefferson quote: "Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the..."
Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants. Thomas Jefferson
Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always. Mahatma Gandhi
When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: "If some day I turn liberal, they will say I have let them down. Emile Zola
And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Thomas Jefferson
In this style, argue tyrants of every denomination, from the weak king to the weak father of a family; they are all eager to crush reason; yet always assert that they usurp its throne only to be useful. Do you not acta similar part, when you force all women, by denying them civil and political rights, to remain immured in their families groping in the dark? Mary Wollstonecraft
The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance. Horace
These words of yours, devoid of Christ, devoid of Spirit, are colder than ice itself, so that they tarnish the beauty of your eloquence. Perhaps they were dragged out of you, poor fellow, by fear of the pontiffs and tyrants, lest you should seem altogether an atheist! Martin Luther
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quote: "There's no tyrant like a brain."
There's no tyrant like a brain. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Thus Tyrants could practice, in a sense, “democracy.” But now “democracy” can do the same work without any tyranny other than her own. C. S. Lewis
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What we think of ourselves, this is what determines, or rather indicates, our fate. Henry David Thoreau
Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the blows that the hammer could place upon it. The patience of the saints was stronger than the cruelty of tyrants. Charles Spurgeon
In a word, the Self has two qualities: it is unjust in itself since it makes itself the centre of everything; it is inconvenient to others since it would enslave them; for each self is the enemy, and would like to be the tyrant of all others. You take away its inconvenience, but not its injustice, and so you do not render it lovable to those who hate injustice; you render it lovable only to the unjust, who do not any longer find in it an enemy. And thus you remain unjust, and can please only... Blaise Pascal
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "Are you a slave? Then you cannot be a friend. Are you a..."
Are you a slave? Then you cannot be a friend. Are you a tyrant? Then you cannot have friends. Friedrich Nietzsche

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