Quotes About Tyrant
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. Viešoji nuomon? - ne toks baisus tironas kaip savoji. Tai, k? žmogus galvoja apie save, kaip tik ir lemia arba grei?iau rodo jo likim?.
~ Henry David Thoreau
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. Self-emancipation
~ Henry David Thoreau
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It is not to compare Ali and Allah. It is to discuss between tyrant Yazeed and veracity of Hussainiat.
~ Mirza Sharafat Hussain Beigh
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Fear is energy also, and it's food for the mind — not exactly the food you want, but it works. We need to give the body the freedom from the tyrant that is the mind. If we no longer have the need for food in our mind, the need for sex in our mind, everything becomes so easy. The first step is to split the needs into two categories: These are the needs of the body; these are the needs of the mind.
~ Miguel Ruiz
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Love reigns a very tyrant in my heart.
~ Thomas Otway
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liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother.
~ Camille Paglia
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Modern liberalism suffers unresolved contradictions. It exalts individualism and freedom and, on its radical wing, condemns social orders as oppressive. On the other hand, it expects government to provide materially for all, a feat manageable only by an expansion of authority and a swollen bureaucracy. In other words, liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother.
~ Camille Paglia
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Not everyone will wag their tail for a tyrant, but most will, if he first makes them salivate with hate and gives license to their covetous impulses by making them feel it is only their due. Many would rather take than earn.
~ Terry Goodkind
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We can't just drop everything, sir! Mister Lipwig. Is there something in the word 'tyrant' you do not understand?
~ Terry Pratchett
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They've got something they do it with, I think it's called a mocracy, and it means everyone in the whole country can say who the new Tyrant is. One man ... one vet. ... Everyone has ... the vet. Except for women, of course. And children. And criminals. And slaves. And stupid people. And people of foreign extraction. And people disapproved of for, er, various reasons. And lots of other people. But everyone apart from them. It's a very enlightened civilization.
~ Terry Pratchett
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One day it's the ringing of the bells and the casting down of the evil tyrant, and the next it's everyone sitting around complaining that ever since the tyrant was overthrown no one's been taking out the trash.
~ Terry Pratchett
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papal tyrant the like of whom has not been seen for many centuries.
~ Karl Keating
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Nor is it automatic that once a person becomes acclaimed or powerful, the voice of the inner tyrant will be stilled. The work of individuation is internal. We all have to do it unless we prefer to remain very old children. Even when we do finally claim the authority formerly wielded by that inner custodian, we are not only freed but also bereft. We have lost the inner companion who for so many years also made us feel watched over and safe.
~ Gail Sheehy
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When you fight a war against a tyrant, who do you kill? You kill the victims of the tyrant.
~ Howard Zinn
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Oh, Laseen," she murmured, tears welling in her eyes, "I know why we fear this Jaghut Tyrant. Because he became human, he became like us, he enslaved, he destroyed, and he did it better than we could." She lowered her head into her hands. "That's why we fear.
~ Steven Erikson
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The tyrant thrives when the first fucking fool salutes.
~ Steven Erikson
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No tyrant could thrive where every subject said no. The tyrant thrives when the first fucking fool salutes.
~ Steven Erikson
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The heart was a tyrant, like a child demanding ice cream instead of broccoli and throwing a fit to get its way.
~ Robert Boswell, Tumbledown
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Love is the only tyrant whose reign is sweet.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
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Until we have sinned, Satan is a parasite; when we have sinned, he is a tyrant.
~ Thomas Brooks
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The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrant. It is its natural manure.
~ Thomas Jefferson
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A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
~ Thomas Jefferson
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It is a] happy truth that man is capable of self-government, and only rendered otherwise by the moral degradation designedly superinduced on him by the wicked acts of his tyrant.
~ Thomas Jefferson
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a tyrant, and a conqueror. He was never elected to the office. He would probably laugh at the idea. And if he did somehow decide to hold elections, he would magic the masses into electing him, because he would honestly believe that he was best qualified to rule wisely. Having
~ Ilona Andrews
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