Quotes About Tyrants

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.

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I think I should have enjoyed meeting your mother. How a woman could manage to raise two domineering tyrants like you and Mikhail is beyond me." His dark eyes laughed at her. "But we are charismatic, sexy, handsome, and always right.

Christianity is not a law of bondage; and if it respect the hand of God which sometimes raises up tyrants, it draws up where obedience degenerates into guilty cowardice.

Your Bracelet," she said. "Acheronta movebo.' It doesn't mean 'Thus always to tyrants.' That's 'sic semper tyrannis.' This is from Virgil. 'Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo.' If I cannot move Heaven, I will raise Hell.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

We should eliminate sin if we wish to eliminate the scourge of tyrants.

Truth ever lovely - since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man.

Tis to work and have such pay As just keeps life from day to day In your limbs, as in a cell For the tyrants' use to dwell, … 'Tis to be slave in soul And to hold no strong control Over your own wills, but be All that others make of ye.

fully. Still, I found that like most tyrants, Self 1 didn't like losing control and resisted efforts to minimize his influence.

People who cannot restrain their own baser instincts, who cannot treat one another with civility, are not capable of self-government... without virtue, a society can be ruled only by fear, a truth that tyrants understand all too well

Sans les traditions, pas de civilisation; sans la destruction de ces traditions, pas de progrès.....Ce n'est pas dans les temples qu'habitent les idoles les plus redoutables, ni dans les palais les tyrans les plus despotiques; ceux_ci peuvent être brisés en un instant; mais les maîtres invisibles qui règnent dans nos âmes échappent à tout effort de révolte, et ne cèdent qu'à la lente usure des siècles

Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both [29]our hearts : secrets weary of their tyranny : tyrants willing to be dethroned.

Nostalgia for dead tyrants and the longing for heroes are unhealthy, and they can result in the deification of a Saddam as easily as a Havel or Mandela.

What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion?… The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

My actions are ruled by appetite, passion, prejudice, greed, love, fear, environment, habit, and the worst of these tyrants is habit. Therefore, if I must be a slave to habit let me be a slave to good habits. My bad habits must be destroyed and new furrows prepared for good seed.

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

History is a cookbook. The tyrants are chefs. The philosophers write menus. The priests are waiters. The military men are bouncers. The singing you hear is the poets washing dishes in the kitchen.

Marlborough echoed his monarch's hope that consensus politics could prevail. 'There is nothing more certain than what you say, that either of the parties would be tyrants if they were let alone,'[111] he wrote to Sarah. 'All parties are alike. And as I have taken my resolution of never doing any hardship to any man whatsoever, I shall by it have a quiet in my own mind; not valuing to be a favourite to either of them.'[112]

All Fascism did not die with Mussolini. Hitler is finished--but the seeds spread by his disordered mind have firm root in too many fanatical brains. It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than it is to kill the ideas which gave them birth and strength.

Unlike monarchs, who pass power to their heirs at the moment of death to ensure the survival of the regime, tyrants must simply survive as long as possible.

Protest can be organized through social media, but nothing is real that does not end on the streets. If tyrants feel no consequences for their actions in the three-dimensional world, nothing will change.

For tyrants, the lesson of the Reichstag fire is that one moment of shock enables an eternity of submission. For us, the lesson is that our natural fear and grief must not enable the destruction of our institutions. Courage does not mean not fearing, or not grieving. It does mean recognizing and resisting terror management right away, from the moment of the attack, precisely when it seems most difficult to do so.