Tyrants Quotes - Page 26

• Where once a tyrant had to wish that his subjects had but one common neck that he might strangle them all at once, all he has to do now is to 'educate the people' so that they will have but one common mind to delude.

  Richard Mitchell

  School, People, Mind

  Richard Mitchell (1987). “The leaning tower of Babel and other affronts by the Underground grammarian”, Fireside

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• Where the law ends tyranny begins.

  Henry Fielding

  Law, Ends, Tyranny

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• No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue.

  George Mason

  Freedom, Blessing, Government

  Virginia Declaration of Rights (Article 15), June 12, 1776.

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• There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.

  Demosthenes

  Trust, Wise, Democracy

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• The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Power, Common

  William Hazlitt (1819). “Political essays, with sketches of public characters”, p.163

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  Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.

  Dorothy Day

  Acceptance, Rotten, Social Justice

  "Women on War : Essential Voices for the Nuclear Age" by Daniela Gioseffi, (p. 103), 1988.

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• Truth ever lovely - since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man.

  Thomas Campbell

  Men, Lovely, World

  Thomas Campbell (1822). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell”, p.40

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• This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.

  Philip K. Dick

  People, Resistance, Ordinary

  Philip K. Dick (1985). “I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon”, Doubleday Books

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• From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

  Denis Diderot

  Peace, War, Steps

  "Essai sur le Mérite de la Vertu". A translation and adaptation of "Inquiry concerning Virtue or Merit" by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, 1745.

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• Bad men cannot make good citizens.

  Patrick Henry

  Men, Citizens, Adherence

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• The Fifth Amendment is an old friend and a good friend, one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.

  William O. Douglas

  Friendship, Struggle, Good Friend

  "An Almanac of Liberty". Book by William O. Douglas, 1954.

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• When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sad, Peace, Truth

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• Heap up great wealth in your house, if you wish, and live as a tyrant, but, if the enjoyment of these things be lacking, I would not buy the rest for the shadow of smoke as against happiness.

  Sophocles

  House, Wish, Shadow

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• There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Freedom, Men, Heaven

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.55, Library of Alexandria

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• I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Men, Want, Killing

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• A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Moving, World Government, History

  Speaking to the Roman Senate, as recorded by Sallust in The Catiline War (c. 40 b.c.). This quotation is a favorite of CIA counterintelligence officers.

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• Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.

  Thomas Fuller

  Cruelty

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• An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion, soon degenerates. For force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels. For this reason I have always been passionately opposed to systems such as we see in Italy and Russia to-day.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Men, Russia

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.10, Broadway Books

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• Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

  Michel Foucault

  Freedom, Authority, Danger

  Michel Foucault (1971). “Madness and Civilization”

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• If women were in charge of everything, there would be women tyrants. If black people were in charge, there would be black tyrants. If Hispanics were in charge, then Hispanic tyrants.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  People, Black, Would Be

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• Allah guards the justice loving government, even if it is the government of non-Muslims, and destroys the tyrant government, even if it is the government of Muslims.

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Wisdom, Islamic, Government

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• Love is a tyrant sparing none.

  Pierre Corneille

  Love, Love Is, One Love

  "Le Cid". Book by Pierre Corneille, act I, scene ii, 1636.

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• Every one of the aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the war is being waged to make the world safe for democracy. What humbug! What rot! What false pretense! These... tyrants, these red-handed robbers and murderers, the "patriots," while the men who have the courage to stand face to face with them, speak the truth, and fight for their exploited victims - they are [called] the disloyalists and traitors. If this be true, I want to take my place side by side with the traitors in this fight.

  Eugene V. Debs

  War, Fighting, Men

  Eugene V. Debs' speech he gave across the street from a jail, where he had just visited three socialists who were in prison for opposing the draft, June 1918.

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• With the indiscriminate nature of modern military technology (no such thing as a "smart bomb," it turns out) all wars are wars against civilians, and are therefore inherently immoral. This is true even when a war is considered "just," because it is fought against a tyrant, against an aggressor, to correct a stolen boundary.

  Howard Zinn

  Military, War, Smart

  Howard Zinn (2001). “Howard Zinn on War”, p.51, Seven Stories Press

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• The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good.

  Luc de Clapiers

  War, Desire, Common

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