Tyrants Quotes - Page 15

• Ancient art was the tyrant of Egypt, the mistress of Greece and the servant of Rome.

  Henry Fuseli

  Art, Egypt, Rome

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• In this, our age of infamy Man's choice is but to be A tyrant, traitor, prisoner: No other choice has he.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Men, Choices, Age

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• Peoples of Egypt , you will be told that I have come to destroy your religion. Do not believe it! Reply that I have come to restore your rights!

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Believe, Rights

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• A magistrate is not a father; he must be just and severe. Only tyrants are fathers.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Father, Power, Politics

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• Why independence? If the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow.

  Jose Rizal

  Independence, Today, Noli Me Tangere

  JOSE RIZAL (1962). “THE SUBVERSIVE”

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• Power lies in reason, resolution, and truth. No matter how long the tyrant endures, he will be the loser at the end.

  Khalil

  Lying, Long, Matter

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• Oh you Muslims! You have slept for a long time, long enough for the tyrants to take control over you. You accepted to live as slaves and submitted to tyrants. Now the time has come to revolt and destroy the shackle of slavery.

  Sheikh Abdullah

  Long, Over You, Slavery

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• If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.

  James F. Cooper

  Newspapers, Tyranny, Ifs

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

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Courage, Believe, Russia

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• Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous.

  William Wells Brown

  Responsibility, Numbers, Increase

  William Wells Brown (1853). “Clotel; or, The president's daughter”, p.179

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• It is in the nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know-or care-about circumstances in the colonies.

  Bertrand Russell

  Citizens, Care, Lasts

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• The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and of the newest philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot injure any member, without a sympathetic injury to all the members

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Philosophy, Men, Race

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1253, Delphi Classics

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• A new fascism promises security from the terror of crime. All that is required is that we take away the criminals' rights - which, of course, are our own. Out of our desperation and fear we begin to feel a sense of security from the new totalitarian state.

  Gerry Spence

  Rights, Promise, Criminals

  Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.408, Macmillan

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• Fear is a psychic tyrant that has no intention of letting its slave go free. It will say whatever it needs to say to confuse your thinking... It will always seek to preserve itself.

  Marianne Williamson

  Thinking, Psychics, Needs

  Marianne Williamson (2012). “A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever”, p.61, Hay House, Inc

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• The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.

  Patrick Henry

  Kings, Rights, Revolution

  Patrick Henry (2007). “Patrick Henry in his speeches and writings and in the words of his contemporaries”, Warwick House Publishing

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• That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant, practiced in acts of despotism and cruelty.

  George Mason

  People, Gentleman, Mind

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• Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Rome, Shadow

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

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• To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave.

  Denis Kearney

  Despair, World, Aristocracy

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• At the very time that philosophers of the most enterprising benevolence were founding in Greece those institutions which have rendered it the wonder and luminary of the world, am I required to believe that the weak and wicked king of an obscure and barbarous nation, a murderer, a traitor and a tyrant, was the man after God's own heart?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Atheist, Kings, Believe

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Roger Ingpen, Walter Edwin Peck (1965). “Complete Works: Newly Edited by Roger Ingpen and Walter E. Peck”

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• The preservation of a free government requires not merely that the metes and bounds which separate each department of power be invariably maintained; but more especially that neither of them be suffered to overleap the great Barrier which defends the rights of the people. The Rulers who are guilty of such an encroachment, exceed the commission from which they derive their authority and are Tyrants. The people who submit to it are governed by laws made neither by themselves nor by an authority derived from them, and are slaves.

  James Madison

  Rights, Government, Law

  James Madison (1867). “1769-1793”, p.163

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• What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea coasts, our army and our navy... Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in us. Our defense is in the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism at your own doors... You have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Army, Men, Doors

  "The Writings of Abraham Lincoln" by Abraham Lincoln, Vol. 5, (pp. 6-7), 2004.

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• In a despotic government, the only principle by which the tyrant who is to move the whole machine means to regulate and manage the people is fear, by the servile dread of his power. But a free government, which of all others is far the most preferable, cannot be supported without virtue.

  Samuel Williams

  Moving, Mean, Government

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• Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure.

  Seneca the Younger

  Insecure, Land, Empires

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• Dissembling courtesy! How fine this tyrant can trickle when she wounds!

  William Shakespeare

  Kindness, Courtesy, Fine

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• Verily, the index finger that testifies to the oneness of Allah Azzawajal in prayer, utterly rejects to write even an alphabet, endorsing the rule of the tyrant

  Sayyid Qutb

  Prayer, Writing, Oneness

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