Tyrants Quotes - Page 13

• John Paul II spoke to the commoner and to the king, to the tyrant and to the democrat in that same language of freedom.

  Chris Matthews

  Kings, Language, John Paul Ii

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Taken, Humanity, United States

  Lajos Kossuth (1853). “Select speeches, condensed and abridged by F.W. Newman”, p.24

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• The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.

  William Henry Harrison

  Military, Age, Passing Away

  David A. Durfee, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, United States. President (1841-1845 : Tyler) (1970). “William Henry Harrison, 1773-1841: John Tyler, 1790-1862; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• Our teachers were absolute tyrants. They had no sympathy with youth; their one object was to stuff our brains and turn us into erudite apes like themselves. If any pupil showed the slightest trace of originality, they persecuted him relentlessly, and the only model pupils whom I have ever got to know have all been failures in after-life.

  Adolf Hitler

  Teacher, Brain, Stuff

  Adolf Hitler (1953). “Secret Conversations, 1941-1944”

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• Obama is a tyrant the same way FDR was a tyrant. He has a view of presidential power that states: the government is in control of the country, and the president is in charge of the government. He's taken an imperial view of the presidency.

  David Mamet

  Country, Taken, Government

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• Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery.

  Daniel De Leon

  Men, Civilization, Slavery

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• Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Luxury, Republic, Poverty

  "The Spirit of the Laws" by Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, Book VII: Consequences of the Different Principles of the Three Governments with Respect to Sumptuary Laws, Luxury and the Condition of Women, Ch. 4: Of Sumptuary Laws in a Monarchy, 1748.

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• The securities laws of the 1930s were so important because it forced companies to file registration statements and issue prospectuses, and it remedied the imbalance of information.

  Ron Chernow

  Law, Issues, Important

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• Let's face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can't resist.

  Bob Uecker

  Sports, Games, Abuse

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• Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother.

  Frederick Douglass

  Brother, Light, Flying

  Frederick Douglass (1846). “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave”, p.102

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• Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.

  Winston Churchill

  Writing, Mistress, Amusement

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• Another nation is made out to be utterly depraved and fiendish, while one's own nation stands for everything that is good and noble. Every action of the enemy is judged by one standard - every action of oneself by another. Even good deeds by the enemy are considered a sign of particular devilishness, meant to deceive us and the world, while our bad deeds are necessary and justified by our noble goals, which they serve.

  Erich Fromm

  Goal, Enemy, Noble

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.121, Open Road Media

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• Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.

  Tim Bishop

  Race, Leader, World

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• We have to bring stability to Iraq, otherwise we will be faced with a future dilemma of sending our loved ones into harms way to stop a civil war or the rise of a new tyrant born from the instability that we created.

  Jay Rockefeller

  War, Iraq, Way

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• There can be no freedom for Africa without justice; and no justice without declaring war on Africa's poverty, disease and famine with as much vehemence as we remove the tyrant and the terrorist.

  Tony Blair

  War, Justice, Vehemence

  Address to Congress Accepting Congressional Gold Medal, delivered 17 July 2003, Joint Session of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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• If Obama's a tyrant, then he's pretty lame for a tyrant. How many tyrants do you know that really suffer because they can't get cloture? Very few.

  Jon Stewart

  Suffering, Knows, Do You Know

  "What Bill O'Reilly Edited Out Of His Interviews With Jon Stewart: Total Evisceration!". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, crooksandliars.com. February 6, 2010.

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• Let tyrants shake their iron rod.

  William Billings

  Iron, Shakes

  William Billings (1977). “The Complete Works of William Billings: The singing master's assistant : 1778 ; Music in miniature : 1779”

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• They would be subject to no one, neither to lawful ruler nor to the reign of law, but would be altogether and absolutely free. That is the way they got their tyrants, for either servitude or freedom, when it goes to extremes, is an utter bane, while either in due measure is altogether a boon.

  Plato

  Law, Way, Would Be

  Plato (1963). “The Collected Dialogues of Plato: Including The Letters”, Bollingen

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• My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.

  June Jordan

  Father, Hero, Passionate

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• We always think we are right, and - search as I have - there is no evil under the sun that somebody somewhere won't argue is actually a good, no idiocy that hasn't got its perfectly serious defenders, and no tyrant, past or present - no matter how bloody - without some bunch of zealot schmucks to defend him or his reputation till the last breath in their bodies - or preferably somebody else's.

  Clive Barker

  Past, Thinking, Evil

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• It was known in the mid 90s already that Saddam Hussein was a dangerous tyrant that he had already launched aggressions against Iran, he had invaded Kuwait.

  Douglas J. Feith

  Iran, Kuwait, Hussein

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• Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Successful, Revolution, Robes

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• A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Land, Thrones, Length

  "Antisemitism: Part One of The Origins of Totalitarianism". Book by Hannah Arendt, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, p. 127, 2012.

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• I can't imagine anyone who doesn't think the world is safer without a tyrant who murdered his own people, used weapons of mass destruction against them and flouted the world for so many years.

  Karen Hughes

  Thinking, Mass Destruction, Years

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• Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.

  Emily Bronte

  Return, Torment, Again And Again

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