Tyrants Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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 seldom want pretexts.

All men would be tyrants if they could.

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

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

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

Clever tyrants are never punished.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

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

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

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

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.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

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

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

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

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

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.

Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.

Let tyrants shake their iron rod.