Tyrants Quotes - Page 32

• Religions are the cradles of despotism.

  Marquis de Sade

  Religion, Literature, Cradle

  Marquis de Sade “Philosophy in the Bedroom: An Erotic Novel”, Library of Alexandria

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• There is bound to be a certain amount of trouble running any country. If you are president, the trouble happens to you. But if you are a tyrant you can arrange things so that most of the trouble happens to other people.

  Don Marquis

  Running, Country, People

  Don Marquis (1935). “Archy does his part”

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• I loved Jack Ford. I got him in his later days, and he was a total tyrant and a total autocrat and an Irish drunk. But I had a great time.

  Richard Widmark

  Fog, Drunk, Had A Great Time

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• The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.

  Voltaire

  Men, Rogues, Slave

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.137, Penguin

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• I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could... That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute, but such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend.

  Abigail Adams

  Sex, Husband, Giving Up

  "Familiar Letters of John Adams and his wife Abigail Adams" edited by Charles Francis Adams, (p. 147), 1875.

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• Hold firm to your vision but don't be a tyrant on set.

  Werner Herzog

  Vision, Firm

  "12 Things I Learned at Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School" by Marie-Françoise Theodore, www.indiewire.com. September 24, 2014.

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• A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover - but will sooner or later find a tyrant.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Men, Giving

  Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.13, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly terrible to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a free press.

  Samuel

  Tools, Terrible, Fretting

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• Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men of spirit who might lead a revolution, by humbling the people, and making them incapable of decisive action.

  Aristotle

  War, Mean, Men

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• Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused.

  Virgil

  Power, Greed, Gold

  Virgil (1907). “The ¨neid of Virgil Translated Into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor”, p.44, Library of Alexandria

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• The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.

  William Ellery Channing

  Enemy, Worst, Breasts

  William Ellery Channing (1835). “The works of Wm. Ellery Channing ...”, p.262

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• The dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such as guided thereunto ; for whereas founders of states, lawgivers, extirpators of tyrants, fathers of the people, were honoured but with the titles of demigods, inventors ere ever consecrated among the gods themselves.

  Francis Bacon

  Father, Men, People

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• The right of a nation to kill a tyrant, in cases of necessity, can no more be doubted, than to hang a robber, or kill a flea. But killing one tyrant only makes way for worse, unless the people have sense, spirit and honesty enough to establish and support a constitution guarded at all points against the tyranny of the one, the few, and the many.

  John Adams

  Honesty, People, Support

  John Adams (2015). “The Works of John Adams Vol. 6: Defence of the Constitution IV, Discourses on Davila”, p.110, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Birthday, Death, Time

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• Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

  Matthew Prior

  Love, Anger, Heart

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• Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything.

  John Polkinghorne

  Ideas, Cosmic

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• The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

  Thomas Paine

  Motivation, Fear, Political

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• Every one with this writ may be a tyrant in a legal manner, also may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.

  James Otis

  May, Murder, Realms

  "James Otis: Against Writs of Assistance". James Otis' speech (February 1761), as quoted in William Tudor "James Otis's Speech on the Writs of Assistance", books.google.com. 1906.

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• Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul.

  James Otis

  Men, Soul, Different

  "James Otis: Against Writs of Assistance". James Otis' speech (February 1761), as quoted in William Tudor "James Otis's Speech on the Writs of Assistance", books.google.com. 1906.

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• A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

  Bertrand Russell

  Time, Truth, Thinking

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.35, Bertrand Russell

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• The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims.

  Lu Xun

  Government, Execution, Victim

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• Blest leisure is our curse; like that of Cain, It, makes us wander, wander earth around, To fly that tyrant Thought. As Atlas groan'd The world beneath, we groan beneath an hour.

  Edward Young

  Leisure, Atlas, Cain

  Edward Young (1821). “Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality”, p.25

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• Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice-- The weakness and the wickedness of luxury-- The negligence--the apathy--the evils Of sensual sloth--produces ten thousand tyrants, Whose delegated cruelty surpasses The worst acts of one energetic master, However harsh and hard in his own bearing.

  Lord Byron

  Thinking, Luxury, Blood

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• Set before us the conduct of our own British ancestors, who defended for us the inherent rights of mankind against foreign and domestic tyrants and usurpers, against arbitrary kings and cruel priests; in short against the gates of earth and hell.

  John Adams

  Kings, Rights, Arbitrary

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.462

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• Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants.

  Julien Green

  Consolation, Oppressed, Superiors

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