Tyrants Quotes
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Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
Emily Bronte -
If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him. Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.
William Penn
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Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens. They who can treat secretly of the affairs of a nation have it absolutely under their authority; and as they plot against the enemy in time of war, so do they against the citizens in time of peace.
Baruch Spinoza -
Not as tyrants have we come, but as liberators.
Adolf Hitler -
Let tyrants shake their iron rod.
William Billings -
How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.
C. S. Lewis -
The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants.
Bertrand Barere -
Throughout the history of mankind there have been murderers and tyrants; and while it may seem momentarily that they have the upper hand, they have always fallen. Always.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
Anthony Trollope -
...the greatest tyrants over women are women.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
It has always happened that tyrants, in order to strengthen their power, have made every effort to train their people not only in obedience and servility toward themselves, but also in adoration.
Etienne de La Boetie -
He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns a nation.
Seneca the Younger -
My task is not to tyrannize but to destroy tyrants.
Cesare Borgia -
There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.
Jose Rizal
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God himself has no right to be a tyrant.
William Godwin -
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
William Penn -
Why independence? If the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow.
Jose Rizal -
Socialism was made to order for tyrants.
James Cook -
History has a long-range perspective. It ultimately passes stern judgment on tyrants and vindicates those who fought, suffered, were imprisoned, and died for human freedom, against political oppression and economic slavery.
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn -
I loved Jack Ford. I got him in his later days, and he was a total tyrant and a total autocrat and an Irish drunk. But I had a great time.
Richard Widmark
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Non-cooperation with tyrants is a duty.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.
William Ellery Channing -
Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.
Jonathan Mayhew -
A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.
Muriel Spark