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Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.
My great objection to this government is, that it does not leave us the means of defending our rights, or of waging war against tyrants.
Tyrants and dictators have incited hatred against ethnic and religious minorities for centuries in order to consolidate power for themselves.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
Beware of those who attribute petty instructions to God.
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.
Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.
Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.
It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed.
Adding an overarching tier of tyrants - the EU - to European governments has benefited Europeans as a second hangman enhances the health of a condemned man.
I used to spend my money on going to Tom Petty concerts.
Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that
tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.
Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.
The death is unfortunate. It is an accident. It is not police atrocity . It is a small and petty matter.
Fill your brain with giant dreams so it has no space for petty pursuits.
Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings.
Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
Charlie Hebdo: Satire was the father of true political freedom, born in the 18th century; the scourge of bigots and tyrants. Sing its praises.
In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.
I'm real petty. I remember everything like an elephant.
I don’t have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like.
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.
No, we are not tyrants on set, and we are kind of come at it very much as collaborators and not just with each other but everybody and particularly the actors.
Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.
Do you want to know something about tyrants? When faced with death, they weep and they beg just like the rest of us.
If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject.
Only the luckless, the petty or the deranged [end] up in court.
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
Petty things don't bother me as much as they used to.
I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.
Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil.
Muslims have been subjected to so many tyrants and oppressive regimes. That's what the Arab Spring was about, but the problem comes in trying to direct a revolution.
Mugabe's resignation fascinates because the fall of tyrants is always a family story, decline of the father, writ large. What a strange creature he is.
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.
One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms.
An ambition to excel in petty things obstructs the progress to nobler aims.
She wasn't speaking to me - in the juvenile, petty sense of the phrase.
I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.
I'm a big fan of Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty, they're my two favorites.
I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.
I believe in what Richard Petty Motorsports is doing and their desire to win races.
A great nation like the United States has many and varied interests, and we need both to do business with tyrants and to engage constantly in multilateral diplomacy.
The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.
Dictators from the past, tyrants, were not unaware that it is easier to govern and enslave a nation of drinkers than that of abstainers.
Ronald Reagan said that he sought a "Star Wars" defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.
It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.
Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes.
Let tyrants fear, I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good-will of my subjects.
Party loyalty lowers the greatest men to the petty level of the masses.
Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
What was the function of poetry if not to improve the petty, cautious minds of evasive children?
I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty.
Never fear being a petty fool it means you ain't dying
Wars of aggression are the most barbarous of all human endeavors and are, more often than not, the instruments of insane tyrants who hear voices.
I am very competitive - with myself and everybody else. I'm petty, too.
The 'Axis of Evil' was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well.
When dictators and tyrants seek to destroy the freedoms of men, their first target is the legal profession and through it the rule of law.
In contrast to reincarnation and karma, all other views seem petty and narrow
I hated the idleness, the stupidity, the respectability, the petty unselfishness.
The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
