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Last updated on November 14, 2024.
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.
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
It is outrageous that the Queen has invited royal tyrants to celebrate her diamond jubilee.
People will endure their tyrants for years, but they tear their deliverers to pieces if a millennium is not created immediately.
A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants.
Few tyrants go down to the infernal regions by a natural death.
I do not see why I should be polite to tyrants, who slobber of humanitarianism and think only of their own petty interests.
The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.
Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes.
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.
Dictators from the past, tyrants, were not unaware that it is easier to govern and enslave a nation of drinkers than that of abstainers.
Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants.
Tyrants and dictators have incited hatred against ethnic and religious minorities for centuries in order to consolidate power for themselves.
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.
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.
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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.
The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the free.
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.
When it comes to tyrants, dictators and terrorists, strength and the threat of force is the only language they understand.
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.
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.
Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.
Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.
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.
The will of the nation is one of those phrases most widely abused by schemers and tyrants of all ages.
Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis. He snatched the lightning from the sky and the sceptre from tyrants.
Words are freeborn, and not the vassals of the gruff tyrants of prose to do their bidding only. They have the same right to dance and sing as the dewdrops have to sparkle and the stars to shine.
Truth ever lovely - since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man.
Most of the nations around the world are led by tyrants and dictators and thugs who are leading their countries for one reason.
Do you want to know something about tyrants? When faced with death, they weep and they beg just like the rest of us.
When politicians don black robes and seize powers they do not have, they should be called out for what they are - usurpers and petty tyrants.
Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for 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.
The "Axis of Evil" was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well.
If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject.
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.
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.
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.
The Bible has, amazingly- no doubt with supernatural grace-survived its critics. The harder tyrants try to eliminate it and skeptics dismiss it, the better read it becomes.
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.
The Sicilian tyrants never devised a greater punishment than envy.
The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.
If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.
Neither Britain, a land fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets.
Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.
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.
Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey.
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.
Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that
tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.
The 'Axis of Evil' was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well.
The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
A magistrate is not a father; he must be just and severe. Only tyrants are fathers.
To imitate the hatred and violence of tyrants and murderers is the best way to take their place.
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.
How can tyrants safely govern home,
Unless abroad they purchase great alliance.
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.
