Tyrants Quotes - Page 28

• Who has not seen how women bully women? What tortures have men to endure compared to those daily repeated shafts of scorn and cruelty with which poor women are riddled by the tyrants of their sex?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Sex, Men, Bully

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1848). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.111

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• Lacy had warned me about Drew the first day of school. Apparently the two of them had gone to some summer camp together––blah, blah, I didn't really listen to teh details––and Drew had been just as much a tyrant there. ~Sadie Kane, about Lacy and Drew of Aphrodite cabin.

  Rick Riordan

  Summer, School, Two

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• I will be harsh and stern against the aggressor, but I will be a pillar of strength for the weak.I will not calm down until I will put one cheek of a tyrant on the ground and the other under my feet, and for the poor and weak, I will put my cheek on the ground.

  Umar

  Feet, Pillars, Calm

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• In former days, men sold themselves to the Devil to acquire magical powers. Nowadays they acquire those powers from science, and find themselves compelled to become devils. There is no hope for the world unless power can be tamed, and brought into the service, not of this or that group of fanatical tyrants, but of the whole human race, white and yellow and black, fascist and communist and democrat; for science has made it inevitable that all must live or all must die.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Yellow, White

  "Power: A New Social Analysis". Book by Bertrand Russell, Ch. 2: Leaders and Followers, 1938.

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• Despotic governments do not recognize the precious human component of the state, seeing its citizens only as a faceless, mindless -- and helpless -- mass to be manipulated at will. It is as though people were incidental to a nation rather than its very life-blood.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Government, Blood, People

  Aung San Suu Kyi (1991). “Freedom from fear: and other writings”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Either the State for ever, crushing individual and local life, taking over in all fields of human activity, bringing with it its wars and its domestic struggles for power, its palace revolutions which only replace one tyrant by another, and inevitably at the end of this development there is ... death! Or the destruction of States, and new life starting again in thousands of centers on the principle of the lively initiative of the individual and groups and that of free agreement.The choice lies with you!

  Peter Kropotkin

  Crush, War, Lying

  "Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal". Book by Peter Kropotkin, 1896.

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• In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.

  Alexander Pope

  Future, Hell, Chains

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker, Whitwell Elwin, William John Courthope (1871). “The Works of Alexander Pope: New Ed. Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials, Collected in Part by John Wilson Croker. With Introd. and Notes by Whitwell Elwin”, p.313

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• Lacan is a tyrant who must be driven from our shores. Narrowly trained English professors who know nothing of art history or popular culture think they can just wade in with Lacan and trash everything in sight.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Thinking, Sight

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.210, Vintage

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• "Magna Carta is the Law: Let the King look out." So it has always been with tyrants among our own people: when the King was tyrant, let him look out. And it has always been the same, and will be the same, whether the tyrant be the Barons, whether the tyrant be the Church, whether he be demagogue or dictator - let them look out.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Kings, Law, People

  Speech at Westminster Hall on July 04, 1935. "This Torch of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses". Book by Stanley Baldwin, p. 4, 1935.

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• The tyranny that now exists is actual. That which may exist in the future is potential. If we are always to draw back from change with the thought that the change may be for the worse, then there is no hope at all of ever escaping injustice.

  Isaac Asimov

  Escaping, May, Injustice

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Prelude to Foundation”, p.392, Spectra

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• Neither Britain, a land fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets.

  St. Jerome

  Land, People, Moses

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• Tyranny seldom announces itself...In fact, a tyranny may exist without an individual tyrant. A whole government, even a democratically elected one, may be tyrannical.

  Joseph Sobran

  Government, May, Facts

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• Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Wine, World, Slave

  William Lloyd Garrison (1885). “The Story of his Life”

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• To say that subjects in general are not proper judges (of the law) when their governors oppress them and play the tyrant, and when they defend their rights ...is as great a treason as ever a man uttered.

  Jonathan Mayhew

  Trust, Men, Law

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• Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the effect of such [gun control] laws is to place the individual at the mercy of the state, unable to resist.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Gun, Law, Mercy

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• When you're convinced that you're right and you believe that you have the license to do anything because you're right, you can be bossy and you can be dangerous. You can be oppressive. You can be a tyrant.

  Terry O'Quinn

  Believe, Dangerous, License

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• E?  loquence quipersuade par douceur, non par empire, en tyran, non en roi. Eloquence should persuade gently, not by force or like a tyrant or king.

  Blaise Pascal

  Kings, Roi, Empires

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• When human statecraft attaches a chain to the feet of a free man, whom it makes a slave in contempt of nature and citizenship, eternal justice rivets the other end about the tyrant's neck.

  Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

  Men, Feet, Justice

  Speech fragment, 1794.

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• In buskined measures move Pale Grief and pleasing Pain, With Horror, tyrant of the throbbing breast.

  Thomas Gray

  Pain, Grief, Moving

  1757 The Bard. A Pindaric Ode, l.128-30.

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• The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls every movement of the citizens and, keeping them under a perpetual servitude, wants them to grow accustomed to baseness and cowardice, has his spies everywhere to listen to what is said in the meetings, and spreads dissension and calumny among the citizens and impoverishes them, is obliged to make war in order to keep his subjects occupied and impose on them permanent need of a chief.

  Aristotle

  War, Men, Light

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• A headline last year, after the death of Saddam Hussein, read: 'Tyrant is hanged'. My auntie looked at the newspaper and sobbed, 'Who's going to present "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?"'

  Steve Williams

  Years, Want, Lasts

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• Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains.

  Alexander Pope

  Yellow, Lakes, Race

  Alexander Pope (2008). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Volume I: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.128, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Suffering, Atheism

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.99, Hackett Publishing

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• Spineless politics do not change the mind of a tyrant.

  Friedrich Kellner

  Mind, Spineless

  "My Opposition, Volume 1 (May 29, 1940)". Diary by Friedrich Kellner, 2011.

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• Adding an overarching tier of tyrants - the EU - to European governments has benefited Europeans as a second hangman enhances the health of a condemned man.

  Ilana Mercer

  Men, Government, Hangman

  "Adieu to the Evil EU". original.antiwar.com. June 10, 2005.

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