Tyrants Quotes - Page 23

• Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants.

  Seneca the Younger

  War, Historical, Democracy

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• ...to make the world safe for democracy.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Strong Women, Differences, Historical

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1985). “Papers: Edited by Arthur S. Link and Others”

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• Passion has overthrown tyrants and freed prisoners and slaves. Passion has brought justice where there was savagery. Passion has created freedom where there was nothing but fear. Passion has helped souls rise from the ashes of their horrible lives and build something better, stronger, more beautiful.

  Jim Butcher

  Beautiful, Passion, Justice

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1694, Penguin

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• When we have but the will to do it, that very moment will Justice be done: that very instant the tyrants of the Earth shall bite the dust.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Dust, Justice, Done

  "An Appeal to the Young". Article by Peter Kropotkin, dwardmac.pitzer.edu. 1880.

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• Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt in cold blood. The moment chosen is one of the surest means of distinguishing the work of the legislator from that of the tyrant.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Mean, Blood, Law

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.173, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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• It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

  C. S. Lewis

  Libertarian Party, Democracies Have, Government

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.324, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.

  C. S. Lewis

  Different, Saint, Conqueror

  C. S. Lewis (1952). “Mere Christianity: a revised and enlarged edition, with a new introduction, of the three books, The case for Christianity, Christian behaviour, and Beyond personality”, Scribner Paper Fiction

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• Democracy is a kingless regime infested by many kings who are sometimes more exclusive, tyrannical and destructive than one, even if he be a tyrant.

  Benito Mussolini

  Kings, Democracy, Sometimes

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• Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the blows that the hammer could place upon it. The patience of the saints was stronger than the cruelty of tyrants.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Patience, Blow, Victory

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1876). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons Preached and Revised”, p.626

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• The Principle of Tolerance, fixed once for all the realization that all knowledge is limited. It is an irony of history that at the very time when this was being worked out, there should rise, under Hitler in Germany and other tyrants elsewhere, a counter-conception: a principle of monstrous certainty. When the future looks back on the 1930's, it will think of them as a crucial confrontation of culture as I have been expounding it - the ascent of man against the throwback to the despots' belief that they have absolute certainty.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Faith, Men, Thinking

  "The Ascent of Man" (Episode 11: "Knowledge or Certainty"), 1973.

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• Whilst so much is being done in the world, to ameliorate the condition of mankind, and the spirit of Freedom is marching with rapid strides and causing tyrants to tremble, may America awake from the apathy in which she has long slumbered.

  James Forten

  America, Long, Black History

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• There are two kinds of rebellion. The first is one in which the slave demands something that the tyrant has got. The second is one in which he demands something that the tyrant has not got.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Two, Demand, Firsts

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• The big tyrants never face justice.

  George Galloway

  Justice, Faces, Bigs

  "Interview with British MP George Galloway". Interview with Thom Hartmann, www.thomhartmann.com. May 27, 2005.

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• Civilization after civilization, it is the same. The world falls to tyranny with a whisper. The frightened are ever keen to bow to a perceived necessity, in the belief that necessity forces conformity, and conformity a certain stability. In a world shaped into conformity, dissidents stand out, are easily branded and dealt with. There is no multitude of perspectives, no dialogue. The victim assumes the face of the tyrant, self-righteous and intransigent, and wars breed like vermin. And people die.

  Steven Erikson

  War, Fall, Self

  "Midnight Tides". Book by Steven Erikson, 2004.

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• There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein's regime is a serious danger, that he is a tyrant, and that his pursuit of lethal weapons of mass destruction cannot be tolerated. He must be disarmed.

  Edward Kennedy

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Iraq

  "Ted Kennedy Lays Out Case Against War With Iraq". www.cnn.com. September 27, 2002.

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• A wicked tyrant is better than a wicked war.

  Martin Luther

  War, Wicked

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• Power is a dangerous thing. Be careful that you don't abuse it or let it make a tyrant of you.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Power, Abuse, Dangerous

  Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.2377, Delphi Classics

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• I will never, for the future, paint the portrait of a tyrant until his head lies before me on the scaffold.

  Jacques-Louis David

  Lying, Portraits, Paint

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• Reverence is an ennobling sentiment; it is felt to be degrading only by the vulgar mind, which would escape the sense of its own littleness by elevating itself into an antagonist of what is above it. He that has no pleasure in looking up is not fit so much as to look down. Of such minds are mannerists in Art; in the world, tyrants of all sorts.

  Washington Allston

  Art, Mind, World

  Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.168, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of

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• All my plans in private life; all my pursuits; all my designs, wishes, and thoughts, have this one great object in view: the overthrow of the ruffian Boroughmongers. If I write grammars; if I write on agriculture; if I sow, plant, or deal in seeds; whatever I do has first in view the destruction of those infamous tyrants.

  William Cobbett

  Writing, Views, Agriculture

  Political Register, August 14, 1819.

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• [Slave] trade ... is the most shocking violation of the law of nature, has a direct tendency to diminish ... liberty, and makes every dealer in it a tyrant, from the director of an African company to the petty chapman [peddler].... It is a clear truth, that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.

  James Otis

  Men, Law, Liberty

  "Argument Against the Writs of Assistance". "Argument Against the Writs of Assistance" by James Otis Jr., 1761.

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• The law is an expression of God 's holy will and as such must be honored and loved," said the preacher piously. "Rubbish," said the Master. "The law is a necessary evil and as such must be cut down to the barest minimum. Show me a lover of the law and I will show you a muttonheaded tyrant .

  Anthony de Mello

  Cutting, Expression, Law

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• A Jap's a Jap. There is no way to determine their loyalty... This coast is too vulnerable. No Jap should come back to this coast except on a permit from my office.

  John L. DeWitt

  Loyalty, Office, Way

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• Tyrants and dictators will accept no other gods before them. They require disobedience to the First Commandment. They seek absolute control and are threatened by faith in God. They fear only the power they cannot possess - the power of truth. So they resent the living example of the devout, especially the devotion of a unique people chosen by God.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Unique, People

  "Bush Speaks At Holocaust Memorial Event". www.cnn.com. April 19, 2001.

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• The people cannot be all, and always well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Patriotic, People, Patriotism

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 2: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.268

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