Tyrants Quotes - Page 25

• A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Constitution, Despots

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• Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations.Imagine the brain, that shiny mound of being, that mouse-gray parliament of cells, that dream factory, that petit tyrant inside a ball of bone, that huddle of neurons calling all the plays, that little everywhere, that fickle pleasuredome, that wrinkled wardrobe of selves stuffed into the skull like too many clothes into a gym bag.

  Diane Ackerman

  Country, Dream, Clothes

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• Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Different Faces, Doe

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.80, Ravenio Books

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• The greatness of every mighty organization embodying an idea in this world lies in the religious fanaticism and intolerance with which, fanatically convinced of its own right, it intolerantly imposes its will against all others.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Lying, Greatness

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We take a fancy to something: and scarcely have we thoroughly taken a fancy to it when that tyrant in us calls out: "Give me thatin sacrifice"--and we give it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Taken, Sacrifice, Giving

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• Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.

  Ben Jonson

  Flattery, Beast, Preserves

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.242

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• The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the free.

  Angelina Grimke

  War, Struggle, Land

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• Self-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to themselves, and tyrants to all the world besides.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love Is, Men, Self

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• Like the effect of advertising upon the customer, the methods of political propaganda tend to increase the feeling of insignificance of the individual voter.

  Erich Fromm

  Political, Feelings, Politics

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.135, Open Road Media

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• Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant.

  Edward Gibbon

  Christian, Atheist, Sober

  Edward Gibbon (1840). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire”, p.100

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• As William Penn put it: "Those people who are not governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." Remember... that those tyrants are often self-imposed roadblocks of your lower self at work.

  Wayne Dyer

  Freedom, Self, People

  Wayne W. Dyer (2010). “The Power of Intention”, p.62, Hay House, Inc

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• There's a new science out called orthomolecular medicine. You correct the chemical imbalance with amino acids and vitamins and minerals that are naturally in the body

  Margot Kidder

  Vitamins And Minerals, Medicine, Body

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• Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant.

  Aldous Huxley

  Nature, Men, Garden

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• Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true forms; but those which regard only the interest of the rulers are all defective and perverted forms, for they are despotic, whereas a state is a community of freemen.

  Aristotle

  Government, Justice, Community

  Aristotle, (2016). “Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens”, p.69, Princeton University Press

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• A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a people who mean to be free.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Character, Mean, People

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.212, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Still let my tyrants know, I am not doomed to wear
  Year after year in gloom, and desolate despair;
  A messenger of Hope comes every night to me,
  And offers for short life, eternal liberty.

  Emily Bronte

  Hope, Short Life, Night

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.109, The Floating Press

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• To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Yield, Reason, Impulse

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• Public Opinion, this invisible, intangible, omnipresent, despotic tyrant; this thousand-headed Hydra - the more dangerous for being composed of individual mediocrities...

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Public Opinion, Mediocrity, Hydra

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• Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake.

  Edgar Wallace

  Fear, Snakes, Racks

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• What kind of tyrant punishes everyone just to get back at the few he's mad at? I mean, besides Chris Christie.

  Bill Maher

  Mean, Mad, Kind

  YouTube Chanel "Uncle Spellbinder"/ "Bill Maher - New Rules [Noah's Ark, God and Religion]", www.youtube.com. March 14, 2014.

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• And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant demon will not turn upon him too?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, Men, White

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.551, Modern Library

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• The end of despots is always odd?exhilarating to those who suffered their tyrannies, and to those who hold despotism in contempt, and anti-climatic at the same time, the discovery that these tyrants were petty, frightened men after all.

  Fouad Ajami

  Spring, Men, Discovery

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• But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Long, Design

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.202, Cosimo, Inc.

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• That cruelest of tyrants - public opinion.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Public Opinion, Opinion

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• Neither can oath nor promise bind any such people to obey and maintain tyrants against God and against his truth known.

  John Knox

  People, Promise, Oath

  John Knox (1831). “The history of the reformation of religion in Scotland”, p.462

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