Tyrants Quotes - Page 18

• The women's movement is filled with tyrants, just as men's political movements are equally filled.

  Norman Mailer

  Men, Political, Tyranny

  "His Punch Is Better Than Ever". Interview with Bonnie Angelo, content.time.com. September 30, 1991.

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• Anywhere in the world if you see a president holding his chair tightly, that man is either a thief or a tyrant, and even worse than this, he is both!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, President, Thieves

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• I believe the vulpine greed of the corporate world is cut from the very same cloth as the tyrant of history.

  Adam Nevill

  Believe, Cutting, Greed

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• Man is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him.

  Lucretia Mott

  Men

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• It is heroic to prepare for war with a tyrant power. Patriots will always win the admiration of mankind for daring to meet the bloodshed of battle for their country's liberty. But the patriot who is willing to go to that sacrifice will be the first to condemn the aimless and secret shedding of blood in time of peace.

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Country, War, Sacrifice

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• By today's standards King George III was a very mild tyrant indeed. He taxed his American colonists at a rate of only pennies per annum. His actual impact on their personal lives was trivial. He had arbitrary power over them in law and in principle but in fact it was seldom exercised. If you compare his rule with that of today's U.S. Government you have to wonder why we celebrate our independence.

  Joseph Sobran

  Kings, Impact, Government

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• The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And I cannot, cannot go.

  Emily Bronte

  Blow, Night, Wind

  "The Night is Darkening Round Me". Poem by Emily Bronte, www.poetryfoundation.org. November 1837.

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• People who cannot restrain their own baser instincts, who cannot treat one another with civility, are not capable of self-government... without virtue, a society can be ruled only by fear, a truth that tyrants understand all too well

  Charles Colson

  Government, Self, People

  Charles W. Colson, Nancy Pearcey (1999). “How Now Shall We Live?”, p.373, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• It is also in the interests of a tyrant to make his subjects poo...the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.

  Aristotle

  Daily Tasks, People, Poor

  "Politics" by Aristotle, Book V, (1313b.16),

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• The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when they make their tormentors suffer. In seeking the Bird's death to free himself, Louie had chained himself, once again, to his tyrant. During the war, the Bird had been unwilling to let go of Louie; after the war, Louie was unable to let go of the Bird.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Letting Go, Pain, War

  Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.366, Random House

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• I killed you once", the Lord Ruler said, turning back to Kelsier. "You tried", Kelsier replied, his voice loud and firm, carrying across the square. "But you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that thing you've never been able to kill no matter how hard you try. I am hope.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Squares, Voice, Trying

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “Mistborn: The Final Empire”, p.703, Macmillan

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• The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.

  Stendhal

  Ideas

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black”, p.277, Xist Publishing

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• The most dangerous kind of man is not the one who spent his youth shoving others around. That kind of man gets lazy, and is often too content with his life to be truly dangerous. The man who spent his youth being shoved around, however … When that man gets a little power and authority, he often uses it to become a tyrant on par with the worst warlords in history.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Men, Lazy, Use

  Brandon Sanderson (2014). “The Rithmatist”, p.90, Pan Macmillan

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• Do you want to know something about tyrants? When faced with death, they weep and they beg just like the rest of us.

  Melina Marchetta

  Want, Knows

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.1206, Penguin UK

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• Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

  Simone Weil

  Evil, Politics, Duty

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.71, Psychology Press

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• A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Stupidity, Firsts, Servant

  Gilles Deleuze, Paul Patton (2004). “Difference and Repetition”, p.151, A&C Black

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• I never wanted to be feared. If I regret one thing, it is the fear I have caused. Fear is the tool of tyrants. Unfortunately, when the fate of the world is in question, you use whatever tools are available.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Regret, Fate, Tools

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.551, Macmillan

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• The very freedom which the sinner supposedly exercises in his self-indulgence is only another proof that he is ruled by the tyrant.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Exercise, Self, Proof

  Fulton J. Sheen (2008). “Life of Christ”, p.284, Image

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• The flag of our stately battles, not struggles of wrath and greed,
  Its stripes were a holy lesson, its spangles a deathless creed:
  'T was red with the blood of freemen and white with the fear of the foe;
  And the stars that fight in their courses 'gainst tyrants its symbols know.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Stars, Struggle, Fighting

  Julia Ward Howe (1866). “Later Lyrics”, p.25

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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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• Moses lifting up his wand, and dividing the Red Sea, and Pharaoh in his chariot overwhelmed with the waters. This motto: "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."

  Benjamin Franklin

  4th Of July, Sea, Water

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• Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.

  Thomas Paine

  Truth, Freedom, Men

  Thomas Paine, Bruce Kuklick (2000). “Paine: Political Writings”, p.162, Cambridge University Press

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• A God who kept tinkering with the universe was absurd; a God who interfered with human freedom and creativity was a tyrant. If God is seen as a self in a world of his own, an ego that relates to a thought, a cause separate from its effect, he becomes a being, not Being itself. An omnipotent, all‐knowing tyrant is not so different from earthly dictators who make everything and everybody mere cogs in the machine which they controlled. An atheism that rejects such a God is amply justified.

  Karen Armstrong

  Atheist, Creativity, Self

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• The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  War, Winning, Ideas

  Samuel P. Huntington (1997). “The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order”, p.51, Penguin Books India

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• Denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.

  Philip Gourevitch

  Evil, Social Justice, Cry

  Philip Gourevitch (2015). “We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Picador Classic”, p.122, Pan Macmillan

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