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Image of William Blake
A tyrant is the worst disease, and the cause of all others.
- William Blake
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Image of Ambrose Bierce
WEAKNESSES, n.pl. Certain primal powers of Tyrant Woman wherewith she holds dominion over the male of her species, binding him to the service of her will and paralyzing his rebellious energies.
- Ambrose Bierce
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Image of Alexis de Tocqueville
The will of the nation is one of those phrases most widely abused by schemers and tyrants of all ages.
- Alexis de Tocqueville
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Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Image of Thomas Paine
Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!
- Thomas Paine
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Image of Twyla Tharp
I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.
- Twyla Tharp
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Image of Joseph Sobran
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.
- Joseph Sobran
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Image of Jean Racine
Flight is lawful, when one flies from tyrants.
- Jean Racine
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Image of N. T. Wright
Death is the ultimate weapon of the tyrant; resurrection does not make a covenant with death, it overthrows it.
- N. T. Wright
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Image of Philip Sidney
A popular license is indeed the many-headed tyrant.
- Philip Sidney
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Image of Bertrand Russell
It is in the nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know-or care-about circumstances in the colonies.
- Bertrand Russell
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Image of Harry Belafonte
No matter what the greatest tyrant in the world, the greatest terrorist in the world, George W. Bush says, we're here to tell you: Not hundreds, not thousands, but millions of the American people ... support your revolution.
- Harry Belafonte
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Image of Emile Zola
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
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Image of Melina Marchetta
Do you want to know something about tyrants? When faced with death, they weep and they beg just like the rest of us.
- Melina Marchetta
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Image of Jose Rizal
Why independence? If the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow.
- Jose Rizal
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Image of H. P. Blavatsky
That cruelest of tyrants - public opinion.
- H. P. Blavatsky
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Image of J. K. Rowling
Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress?
- J. K. Rowling
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Image of Brandon Sanderson
But you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that one thing you've never been able to kill, no matter how hard you try. I am hope.
- Brandon Sanderson
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Image of Edward Young
Blest leisure is our curse; like that of Cain, It, makes us wander, wander earth around, To fly that tyrant Thought. As Atlas groan'd The world beneath, we groan beneath an hour.
- Edward Young
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Image of Alexander Pope
Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.
- Alexander Pope
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Image of Bill Vaughan
A tyrant does not remain in the world; But the curse on him abides forever!
- Bill Vaughan
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Image of Bill Vaughan
Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.
- Bill Vaughan
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Image of Ron Paul
But whether the resistance against government tyrants is non-violent or physically violent, the effort to overthrow state oppression qualifies as true patriotism.
- Ron Paul
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Image of Jon Stewart
If Obama's a tyrant, then he's pretty lame for a tyrant. How many tyrants do you know that really suffer because they can't get cloture? Very few.
- Jon Stewart
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Image of Edward Young
A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt.
- Edward Young
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Image of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind. The tyrants continue to reign because the weak cannot resist. Do you not see that it is a cycle? Who will break that cycle?
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Image of George W. Bush
There is only one force of history that can break the reign of hatred and resentment and expose the pretensions of tyrants and reward the hopes of the decent and tolerant. And that is the force of human freedom.
- George W. Bush
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Image of Winston Churchill
[Magna Carta provided] "a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion by a tyrant or a fool.
- Winston Churchill
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Image of Lord Byron
Tyranny Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem None rebels except subjects? The prince who Neglects or violates his trust is more A brigand than the robber-chief.
- Lord Byron
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Image of John Sterling
Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.
- John Sterling
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Image of Alex Jones
If we start creating our own maps, our own world, our own vision, then there's no way for the cultural tyrants to program us. And, that's why they're pushing so hard to get more outrageous.
- Alex Jones
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Image of Gilbert K. Chesterton
There are two kinds of rebellion. The first is one in which the slave demands something that the tyrant has got. The second is one in which he demands something that the tyrant has not got.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Image of John Knox
Neither can oath nor promise bind any such people to obey and maintain tyrants against God and against his truth known.
- John Knox
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Image of Marcus Tullius Cicero
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Image of Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many.
- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
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Image of George W. Bush
Some have said we must not act until the threat is imminent. Since when have terrorists and tyrants announced their intentions, politely putting us on notice before they strike?
- George W. Bush
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Image of John le Carre
Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch.
- John le Carre
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Image of William Ellery Channing
The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.
- William Ellery Channing
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Image of Tony Gaskins
Instead of trying to see things my way, I try to see things her [wife's] way, and if it honestly makes sense then I will submit to her instead of being a tyrant and a dictator.
- Tony Gaskins
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Image of Sophocles
Heap up great wealth in your house, if you wish, and live as a tyrant, but, if the enjoyment of these things be lacking, I would not buy the rest for the shadow of smoke as against happiness.
- Sophocles
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Image of Charles Colson
The Bible has, amazingly- no doubt with supernatural grace-survived its critics. The harder tyrants try to eliminate it and skeptics dismiss it, the better read it becomes.
- Charles Colson
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Image of Demosthenes
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
- Demosthenes
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Image of Albert Einstein
Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.
- Albert Einstein
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Image of Frederick Douglass
Let us render the tyrant no aid.
- Frederick Douglass
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Image of Louis Farrakhan
Islam has always been a force that dispels tyrants and tyranny, opression and exploitaion. Islam has always been a force that militates for justice.
- Louis Farrakhan
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Image of John Dryden
Thou tyrant, tyrant Jealousy, Thou tyrant of the mind!
- John Dryden
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