Tyrants Quotes - Page 14

• But they don't use law-they use law for their interests. They don't go by law, international, federal, local-nothing! They go by whatever is expedient to protect the interests that are at stake.

  Malcolm X

  Law, Use, Stakes

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• People will endure their tyrants for years, but they tear their deliverers to pieces if a millennium is not created immediately.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Years, People, Tears

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• Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience; but, as blind obedience is ever sought for by power, tyrants and sensualists are in the right when they endeavor to keep women in the dark because, the former only want slaves, and the latter a play-thing.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Dark, Play, Mind

  1792 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, pt.1, ch.2.

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• none can be Tyrants but Cowards.

  Mary Astell

  Coward, Tyranny

  Mary Astell (2002). “A Serious Proposal to the Ladies”, p.247, Broadview Press

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• When a man tells me he's run out of steam in the sex department, I'll tell him, 'Count your blessings; you've escaped from the clutches of a cruel tyrant. Enjoy!

  Richard J. Needham

  Running, Sex, Men

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• Whether you have an abortion, what you put in your own body, with whom you have sex - these are not affairs of the state. A government does not exist to control the citizens. When it does, it is a tyranny, and must be fought. The tree of liberty, Jefferson warned us, must be refreshed with the blood of tyrants and patriots.

  Gore Vidal

  Sex, Government, Blood

  Interview with David Sheff, www.davidsheff.com. December 1987.

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• If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?

  Voltaire

  Atheist, Soul, Atheism

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• Tyranny Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem None rebels except subjects? The prince who Neglects or violates his trust is more A brigand than the robber-chief.

  Lord Byron

  Rebel, Neglect, Chiefs

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1436, Delphi Classics

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• But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant.

  Mary Renault

  Courage, Virtue, Robbers

  Mary Renault (1964). “The Last of the Wine”

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• Who can take Death's portrait? The tyrant never sat.

  Edward Young

  Death, Portraits, Sat

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• Dreams can be relentless tyrants.

  Morgan Llywelyn

  Dream, Relentless

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• Art is a tyrant. It demands heart, brain, soul, body. The entireness of the votary. Nothing less will win its highest favor. I wed art. It is my husband, my world, my life dream, the air I breathe. I know nothing else, feel nothing else, think nothing else.

  Rosa Bonheur

  Dream, Art, Husband

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• A strict belief in fate is the worst of slavery, imposing upon our necks an everlasting lord and tyrant, whom we are to stand in awe of night and day.

  Epicurus

  Fate, Night, Slavery

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• A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.

  Muriel Spark

  Revolution, Chance, Rebellion

  Muriel Spark (2015). “The Abbess of Crewe”, p.26, Canongate Books

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• The hand of Vengeance found the Bed To which the Purple Tyrant fled The iron hand crush'd the tyrant's head And became Tyrant in his stead.

  William Blake

  Crush, Purple, Iron

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.119, Penguin

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• A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. In order to flourish, the tree of Liberty needs the blood of patriots and tyrants.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Blood, Order, Tree

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• The tyrant should take heed to what he doth,
  Since every victim-carrion turns to use,
  And drives a chariot, like a god made wroth,
  Against each piled injustice.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Use, Injustice, Victim

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.297

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• Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.

  Peter Kreeft

  Philosophy, Caring, Moral Absolutism

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• O tyrant love, when held by you,
  We may to prudence bid adieu.
  [Fr., Amour! Amour! quand tu nous tiens
  On peut bien dire, Adieu, prudence.]

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Love, May, Amour

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• Love reigns a very tyrant in my heart.

  Thomas Otway

  Heart, Reign, My Heart

  Thomas Otway (1777). “The Orphan: Or, The Unhappy Marriage : a Tragedy, as it is Acted at the Theatres Royal in Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden”, p.3

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• The civil authority, or that part of it which remained faithful to their trust and true to the ends of the covenant, did, in answer to their consciences, turn out a tyrant, in a way which the Christians in aftertimes will mention with honor, and all tyrants in the world look at with fear.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Christian, Loyalty, Faithful

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• The Sicilian tyrants never devised a greater punishment than envy.

  Juvenal

  Punishment, Envy, Sicilian

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• Few tyrants go down to the infernal regions by a natural death.

  Juvenal

  Natural, Natural Death, Regions

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• A Tyrant is most tyrant to himselfe.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.358

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• Fashion is a tyrant from which nothing frees us. We must suit ourselves to its fantastic tastes. But being compelled to live under its foolish laws, the wise man is never the first to follow, nor the last to keep it.

  Blaise Pascal

  Wise, Fashion, Men

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