Tyrants Quotes - Page 23

• See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.

  George W. Bush

  Dumb, Deceit, Lines

  George W. Bush's speech at the Social Security Conversation in Greece, New York, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. May 24, 2005.

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• The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Courage, Truth

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.138, A&C Black

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• Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.

  Winston Churchill

  Book, Writing, Adventure

  Winston Churchill (1965). “Winston Churchill, His Wit and Wisdom: Selections from His Works and Speeches”

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• Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Screwtape Letters, Slave

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• The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

  Aldous Huxley

  Thinking, Compassion, People

  1937 The Olive Tree.

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• Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Luxury, Republic, Ruins

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• Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.

  James Madison

  Light, Political, Darkness

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• Appeasing the Castro brothers will only cause other tyrants from Caracas to Tehran to Pyongyang to see that they can take advantage of President Obama's naiveté during his final two years in office. As a result, America will be less safe as a result of the President's change in policy.

  Marco Rubio

  Change, Brother, Years

  "Marco Rubio calls Obama’s Cuba deal 'absurd,' says will 'make every effort' to block it" by Bryan Llenas, www.foxnews.com. December 17, 2014.

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• Every tyrant who ever lived has believed in freedom — for himself.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Life, Freedom, Literature

  "A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard".

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• Let us render the tyrant no aid.

  Frederick Douglass

  Aids

  Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison (1849). “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave”, p.102

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• Between a tyrant and a prince there is this single or chief difference, that the latter obeys the law and rules the people by its dictates, accounting himself as but their servant.

  John of Salisbury

  Law, Differences, People

  "Policraticus". Book by John of Salisbury, Bk. 4, ch. 1, 1159.

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• Thomas Jefferson said, The tree of liberty must be fertilized from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Yeah and I heard that and thought, I'm out!

  Christopher Titus

  Blood, Tree, Liberty

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Was not necessity the plea of every illegal exertion of power or exercise of oppression?...Necessity is the plea for very infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

  William Pitt

  Exercise, Slavery, Argument

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• Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of EMERGENCY.

  Herbert Hoover

  Horse, Emergencies, Revolution

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: The great depression, 1929-1941”

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• As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century.

  Robert A. Dahl

  Men, Democracy, Athens

  Robert A. Dahl (2015). “On Democracy”, p.13, Yale University Press

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• We live in an age of prejudice, dissimulation and paradox, wherein, like dry leaves caught in a whirlpool, some of us are tossed helpless . . . ever struggling between our honest convictions and fear of that cruelest of tyrants -- PUBLIC OPINION.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Struggle, Age, Public Opinion

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• I will never, for the future, paint the portrait of a tyrant until his head lies before me on the scaffold.

  Jacques-Louis David

  Lying, Portraits, Paint

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• Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Democracy, Despotism, Subjects

  Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.39

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• The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance.

  Horace

  Men, Citizens, Purpose

  "Carmina (Odes)". Book by Jorace (Book III, Ode III, line 1), 23 BC.

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• The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread. When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out "stop!" When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Summer, Rain, Fall

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• There is no land like England,
  Where'er the light of day be;
  There are no hearts like English hearts,
  Such hearts of oak as they be;
  There is no land like England,
  Where'er the light of day be:
  There are no men like Englishmen,
  So tall and bold as they be!
  And these will strike for England,
  And man and maid be free
  To foil and spoil the tyrant
  Beneath the greenwood tree.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Heart, Men, Light

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• The virtue of female slaves is wholly at the mercy of irresponsible tyrants, and women are bought and sold in our slave markets, to gratify the brutal lust of those who bear the name of Christians.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Christian, Names, Lust

  Sarah Moore Grimké, Mary S. Parker (1838). “Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker”, p.51

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• Tyrants are always assassinated too late. That is their great excuse.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Freedom, Democracy, Too Late

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• Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed -
  Let it be that great strong land of love
  Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
  That any man be crushed by one above.

  Langston Hughes

  Dream, Strong, Kings

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1921-1940”, p.131, University of Missouri Press

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• Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.

  William Ralph Inge

  Average, Public Opinion, Vulgar

  Outspoken Essays Our Present Discontents (p. 9)

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