Tyrants Quotes - Page 16

• So the villains aren't gay-hating Islamists or women killing tyrants, but actually us: an American Congress bent on the apocalypse. Don't we understand? Iranians love their children too.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Children, Hate, Gay

  "Hollywood weighs in on Iran nuclear deal". "The Five" with Greg Gutfeld, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Julie Roginsky, Eric Bolling and Dana Perino, www.foxnews.com. July 29, 2015.

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• The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Exercise, Arbitrary

  Sir Roger L'Estrange (1714). “Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists: with morals and reflections”, p.550

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• If we start creating our own maps, our own world, our own vision, then there's no way for the cultural tyrants to program us. And, that's why they're pushing so hard to get more outrageous.

  Alex Jones

  Creating, Vision, World

  Source: noworldorder.com

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• People of Baghdad, remember for 26 generations you have suffered under strange tyrants who have ever endeavoured to set one Arab house against another in order that they might profit by your dissensions. This policy is abhorrent to Great Britain and her Allies for there can be neither peace nor prosperity where there is enmity or misgovernment. Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators.

  Frederick Stanley Maude

  Army, Land, Cities

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• Formerly, when a king died at Versailles the reign of his successor was immediately announced by the cry: "The king is dead, long live the king", in order to make it understood that despotism is immortal! Now an entire people, moved by a sublime instinct, cried: Long live the Republic! to teach the universe that tyranny died with the tyrant.

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Kings, Order, Long

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• Flight is lawful, when one flies from tyrants.

  Jean Racine

  Flight

  Jean Racine, Robert Bruce Boswell (1908). “The Dramatic Works of Jean Racine: A Metrical English Version”

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• Look rather at the teachings of history, true history, not the history written by Party hacks: genuine democracy, the only valid democracy, is nourished with the blood of martyrs and with the blood of tyrants.

  Wei Jingsheng

  Party, Teaching, Blood

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• If when I die, I am still a dictator, I will certainly go down into the oblivion of all dictators. If, on the other hand, I succeed in establishing a truly stable foundation for a democratic government, I will live forever in every home in China.

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Home, Government, Hands

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• Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. They know its power. Thrones, dominions, principalities, and powers, founded in injustice and wrong, are sure to tremble, if men are allowed to reason... Equally clear is the right to hear. To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

  Frederick Douglass

  Men, Rights, Liberty

  Frederick Douglass (2017). “Frederick Douglass: 100 Quotes on Bondage, Perseverance, and Redemption”

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• I've personally demanded that tyrants let their people go. I've tried to feed the hungry, clothe the poor, protect the elderly and infirm, and defend the needy from the aggressively greedy. I've led a blessed life. What a kick for a kid from the projects.

  Gary Ackerman

  Blessed, Kids, Elderly

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• Social and cultural change, however desirable, should not be effected by the engines of national power. Let us, through persuasion and education, seek to improve institutions we deem defective. But let us, in doing so, respect the orderly processes of the law. Any other course enthrones tyrants and dooms freedom.

  Barry Goldwater

  Law, Persuasion, Social

  Barry Goldwater (2010). “The Conscience of a Conservative”, p.27, Bottom of the Hill

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• The cold war provided the perfect excuse for Western governments to plunder and exploit the Third World in the name of freedom; to rig its elections, bribe its politicians, appoint its tyrants and, by every sophisticated means of persuasion and interference, stunt the emergence of young democracies in the name of democracy.

  John le Carre

  War, Mean, Government

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• Nothing is so opportune for tyrants as a people tired of its liberty.

  Alan Keyes

  Tired, People, Liberty

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• Part of the main plan of imperialism... is that we will give you your history, we will write it for you, we will re-order the past...What's more truly frightening is the defacement, the mutilation, and ultimately the eradication of history in order to create... an order that is favorable to the United States.

  Edward Said

  Writing, Past, Order

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• If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet. A majority by definition, society thinks of itself as having other options than reading verses, no matter how well written. Its failure to do so results in its sinking to that level of locution at which society falls easy prey to a demagogue or a tyrant. This is society's own equivalent of oblivion.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Fall, Reading, Writing

  "Less Than One: Selected Essays".

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• Take sex away from people. Make it forbidden, evil. Limit it to ritualistic breeding. Force it to back up into suppressed sadism. Then hand the people a scapegoat to hate. Let them kill a scapegoat occasionally for cathartic release. The mechanism is ages old. Tyrants used it centuries before the word "psychology" was ever invented. It works, too.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sex, Hate, Hands

  "Revolt in 2100". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1953.

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• Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Foundation, Earth, Palaces

  Walter Savage Landor (1901). “Classical (imaginary) Conversations: Greek, Roman, Modern”

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• The goal of tyrants is tyranny, and the goal of tyranny is tyranny.

  Donald James

  Goal, Tyranny

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• It is said by Bush men and women that we fought (the Iraq War) to strike against terrorism - except that Iraq had no documented role in the Sept. 11 attacks. It is said that we fought from a moral objection to tyranny - except that we don't seem all that troubled by tyrants in nations that lack huge oil reserves. Everything is said except the truth: that we rushed into an unnecessary war on a half-baked mission. And that the repercussions of our hubris will shadow us for years.

  Leonard Pitts

  War, Men, Years

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• Today's rebel is tomorrow's tyrant.

  Ariel Durant

  Rebel, Today, Tomorrow

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• The government is a tyrant living by theft, and therefore has no business to engage in any business.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Government, Theft

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1972). “Instead of a Book”

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• For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, People, Giving

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• 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.

  Charles Colson

  Grace, Doubt, Trying

  Charles Colson, Harold Fickett (2008). “The Faith: What Christians Believe, why They Believe It, and why it Matters”, p.55, Harper Collins

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• Tyrants are but the spawn of Ignorance, Begotten by the slaves they trample on.

  James Russell Lowell

  Ignorance, Slave, Tyranny

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.32

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• There is not land beneath the sun where there is an open Bible and a preached gospel, where a tyrant long can hold his place... Let the Bible be opened to be read by all men, and no tyrant can long rule in peace... The religion of Jesus makes men think, and to make men think is always dangerous to a despot's power.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Men, Thinking

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