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Denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.Collection: Tyrants
Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.Collection: Tyrants
Public Opinion, this invisible, intangible, omnipresent, despotic tyrant; this thousand-headed Hydra - the more dangerous for being composed of individual mediocrities...Collection: Tyrants
The tyrant is nothing but a slave turned inside out.Collection: Tyrants
No tyranny is more cruel than the one practised in the shadow of the laws and under color of justice - when, so to speak, one proceeds to drown the unfortunate on the very plank by which they had saved themselves. And since a tyrant never lacks instruments for his tyranny, Tiberius always found judges ready to condemn as many people as he might suspect.Collection: Tyrants
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.Collection: Tyrants
A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.Collection: Tyrants
That's what tyrants do, I guess. They make you covet their attention; they make you confuse attention for mercy.Collection: Tyrants
The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.Collection: Tyrants
. . . in America, we have achieved the Orwellian prediction - enslaved, the people have been programmed to love their bondage and are left to clutch only mirage-like images of freedom, its fables and fictions. The new slaves are linked together by vast electronic chains of television that imprison not their bodies but their minds. Their desires are programmed, their tastes manipulated, their values set for them.Collection: Tyrants
Any appeasement of tyranny is treason.Collection: Tyrants
Every one with this writ may be a tyrant in a legal manner, also may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.Collection: Tyrants
My task is not to tyrannize but to destroy tyrants.Collection: Tyrants
Every apathetic individual is a brick in a tyrant's throne.Collection: Tyrants
Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die.Collection: Tyrants
The goal of tyrants is tyranny, and the goal of tyranny is tyranny.Collection: Tyrants
They [slaves] have stabbed themselves for freedom-jumped into the waves for freedom-starved for freedom-fought like very tigers for freedom! But they have been hung, and burned, and shot-and their tyrants have been their historians!Collection: Tyrants
Spineless politics do not change the mind of a tyrant.Collection: Tyrants
The method of rule of the tyrant and the oligarch is quite simply to clobber, coerce, or overawe all or most other groups in the interest of their own.Collection: Tyrants
Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke.Collection: Tyrants
Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the "general welfare of the people." Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen.Collection: Tyrants
There's no tyrant like a brain.Collection: Tyrants
If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.Collection: Tyrants
The idea of perfection can be a tyrant you should overthrow, to gain your freedom.Collection: Tyrants
The object of any tyrant would be to overthrow or diminish trial by jury, for it is the lamp that shows that freedom lives.Collection: Tyrants
Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.Collection: Tyrants
A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.Collection: Tyrants
Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.Collection: Tyrants
Whilst so much is being done in the world, to ameliorate the condition of mankind, and the spirit of Freedom is marching with rapid strides and causing tyrants to tremble, may America awake from the apathy in which she has long slumbered.Collection: Tyrants
Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them.Collection: Tyrants
A headline last year, after the death of Saddam Hussein, read: 'Tyrant is hanged'. My auntie looked at the newspaper and sobbed, 'Who's going to present "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?"'Collection: Tyrants
I would rather be my own tyrant than have someone else tyrannize me.Collection: Tyrants
... one of the things the tyrant most cunningly engineers is the gross over-simplification of language, because propaganda requires that the minds of the collective respond primitively to slogans of incitement.Collection: Tyrants
Today's rebel is tomorrow's tyrant.Collection: Tyrants
I came into the world charged with the duty to uphold the right in every place, to destroy sin and evil... the only reason I took birth was to see that righteousness may flourish, that good may live, and tyrants be torn out by their roots.Collection: Tyrants
None but tyrants have any business to be afraid.Collection: Tyrants
The slaves of today will become the tyrants of tomorrow--the proletariat overthrows the hegemon to become the hegemon itself, only to be eventually overthrown by a proto-hegemon that will in turn lose its position. It is this dizzying cycle that keeps humanity chasing the tail it lost millennia agoCollection: Tyrants
There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly terrible to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a free press.Collection: Tyrants
Why should I trade one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away?Collection: Tyrants
I would rather deal with a tyrant any day than a committee. Committees, as a general rule, aren’t willing to take chances, which is why you have a committee in the first place — so you can share the blame.Collection: Tyrants
Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants.Collection: Tyrants
Oh you Muslims! You have slept for a long time, long enough for the tyrants to take control over you. You accepted to live as slaves and submitted to tyrants. Now the time has come to revolt and destroy the shackle of slavery.Collection: Tyrants
The universal methodology of the tyrant is always incrementalism.Collection: Tyrants
It's important to remember that Bush Derangement Syndrome on the left - comparing him to Hitler, calling him a terrorist and a tyrant - preceded Obama Derangement Syndrome on the right.Collection: Tyrants
To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave.Collection: Tyrants
There's a new science out called orthomolecular medicine. You correct the chemical imbalance with amino acids and vitamins and minerals that are naturally in the bodyCollection: Tyrants
A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants.Collection: Tyrants
Intolerance of oppression, the desire to be free and develop one personality to its full limits, is not enough to make one an anarchist. That aspiration towards unlimited freedom, if not tempered by a love for mankind and by the desire that all should enjoy equal freedom, may well create rebels who soon become exploiters and tyrants.Collection: Tyrants
...the greatest tyrants over women are women.Collection: Tyrants
A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's tasteCollection: Tyrants