Aristotle Quotes, War Quotes, Tyrants Quotes

Of the tyrant, spies and informers are the principal instruments. War is his favorite occupation, for the sake of engrossing the attention of the people, and making himself necessary to them as their leader.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aristotle Quotes , War Quotes , Tyrants Quotes

[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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Tyrants Quotes , Balance Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Tyrants Quotes , Two Quotes

Our teachers were absolute tyrants. They had no sympathy with youth; their one object was to stuff our brains and turn us into erudite apes like themselves. If any pupil showed the slightest trace of originality, they persecuted him relentlessly, and the only model pupils whom I have ever got to know have all been failures in after-life.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , Teacher Quotes , Tyrants Quotes

The hand of Vengeance found the Bed To which the Purple Tyrant fled The iron hand crush'd the tyrant's head And became Tyrant in his stead.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Blake Quotes , Crush Quotes , Tyrants Quotes

Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice-- The weakness and the wickedness of luxury-- The negligence--the apathy--the evils Of sensual sloth--produces ten thousand tyrants, Whose delegated cruelty surpasses The worst acts of one energetic master, However harsh and hard in his own bearing.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Tyrants Quotes

The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Tyrants Quotes , Iraq Quotes

Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Tyrants Quotes , Lust Quotes

...to make the world safe for democracy.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Strong Women Quotes , Tyrants Quotes

It is lawful and hath been held so through all ages for any one who have the power to call to account a tyrant or wicked king, and after due conviction to depose and put him to death.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Milton Quotes , Kings Quotes , Tyrants Quotes

The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Henry Harrison Quotes , Military Quotes , Tyrants Quotes

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes , Children Quotes , Tyrants Quotes

We stand for the maintenance of private property... We shall protect free enterprise as the most expedient, or rather the sole possible economic order.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , Order Quotes , Tyrants Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Tyrants Quotes , Weakness Quotes

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Government Quotes , Tyrants Quotes

To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Yield Quotes , Tyrants Quotes

Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Rights Quotes , Tyrants Quotes

In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Future Quotes , Tyrants Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Tyrants Quotes , Hatred Quotes

Dissembling courtesy! How fine this tyrant can trickle when she wounds!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Kindness Quotes , Tyrants Quotes