Tyrants Quotes

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.

You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff.

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

All men would be tyrants if they could.

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

May the Lord destroy all the tyrants of the church. Amen.

Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.

Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes.

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

The big tyrants never face justice.

It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

Let tyrants shake their iron rod.