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Image of Mary Kay Ash
There's a big difference between a decisive manager and a tyrant.
- Mary Kay Ash
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Image of Che Guevara
If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.
- Che Guevara
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Image of Mahatma Gandhi
Non-cooperation with tyrants is a duty.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Image of Sigmund Freud
The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to reconcile the claims and demands of all three...The three tyrants are the external world, the superego, and the id.
- Sigmund Freud
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Image of Barry Goldwater
Social and cultural change, however desirable, should not be effected by the engines of national power. Let us, through persuasion and education, seek to improve institutions we deem defective. But let us, in doing so, respect the orderly processes of the law. Any other course enthrones tyrants and dooms freedom.
- Barry Goldwater
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Image of Erich Fromm
Another nation is made out to be utterly depraved and fiendish, while one's own nation stands for everything that is good and noble. Every action of the enemy is judged by one standard - every action of oneself by another. Even good deeds by the enemy are considered a sign of particular devilishness, meant to deceive us and the world, while our bad deeds are necessary and justified by our noble goals, which they serve.
- Erich Fromm
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Image of Anatole France
Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.
- Anatole France
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Image of Aristotle
All three states - the Lacedaemonian, the Cretan, and the Carthaginian - nearly resemble one another, and are very different from any others. Many of the Carthaginian institutions are excellent. The superiority of their constitution is proved by the fact that the common people remains loyal to the constitution; the Carthaginians have never had any rebellion worth speaking of, and have never been under the rule of a tyrant.
- Aristotle
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Image of David Frum
The monster has escaped Elba!" "The tyrant has landed at Cannes!" "Bonaparte meets the troops." "Napoleon approaches Paris." "His Imperial Majesty has entered the capital.
- David Frum
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Image of Erich Fromm
Like the effect of advertising upon the customer, the methods of political propaganda tend to increase the feeling of insignificance of the individual voter.
- Erich Fromm
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Image of Pope Francis
To imitate the hatred and violence of tyrants and murderers is the best way to take their place.
- Pope Francis
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Image of Joseph Goebbels
We have made the Reich by propaganda
- Joseph Goebbels
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Image of Christopher Hitchens
Only a humorless tyrant could want a perpetual chanting of praises that, one has no choice but to assume, would be the innate virtues and splendors furnished him by his creator, infinite regression, drowned in praise!
- Christopher Hitchens
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Image of Mary Anne Radmacher
I will not be governed by the tyranny of immediacy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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Image of Adolf Hitler
Not as tyrants have we come, but as liberators.
- Adolf Hitler
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Image of Mary Astell
none can be Tyrants but Cowards.
- Mary Astell
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Image of Werner Herzog
Hold firm to your vision but don't be a tyrant on set.
- Werner Herzog
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Image of George Herbert
A Tyrant is most tyrant to himselfe.
- George Herbert
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Image of St. Jerome
Neither Britain, a land fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets.
- St. Jerome
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Image of Alice Foote MacDougall
Work becomes at once a delight and a tyrant. For even when the time comes and you can relax, you hardly know how.
- Alice Foote MacDougall
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Image of Juvenal
What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear?
- Juvenal
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Image of Ben Jonson
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
- Ben Jonson
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Image of Juvenal
Few tyrants go down to the infernal regions by a natural death.
- Juvenal
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Image of Walter Lippmann
The consent of the governed" is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well.
- Walter Lippmann
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Image of C. S. Lewis
How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.
- C. S. Lewis
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Image of Walter Savage Landor
Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.
- Walter Savage Landor
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Image of Ray Lewis
All the cops are just workers for the one percent, and they don't even realize they're being exploited.
- Ray Lewis
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Image of C. S. Lewis
Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
- C. S. Lewis
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Image of Herman Melville
Of all insults, the temporary condescension of a master to a slave is the most outrageous and galling. That potentate who most condescends, mark him well; for that potentate, if occasion come, will prove your uttermost tyrant.
- Herman Melville
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Image of Karl Marx
A nation that enslaves another forges its own chains.
- Karl Marx
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Image of George Mason
That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant, practiced in acts of despotism and cruelty.
- George Mason
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Image of James Madison
Democracy was the right of the people to choose their own tyrant.
- James Madison
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