43 Tyrants Quotes for You to Enjoy

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Thomas Jefferson

Time Refreshed Liberty Tree Tyrants Must Blood From Time To Time Patriots

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God. Benjamin Franklin

God Obedience Rebellion Tyrants Against

It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice. Henry A. Wallace

Every Tyrants Case Been Modern Prejudice Growth Coincidence

There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves. Jose Rizal

Tyrants Where Slaves

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

People Welfare Alibi Tyrants Particular Always Been

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

Ignorance Free Tyrants Weapon Always Been Salvation Enlightenment

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. Abraham Joshua Heschel

Love Culture People Old Care Affection Incurable Tyrants Mines Easy Fond Point True Toward Make How Test Dictators Behaves Gold Being Children To Love Helpless Even

Clever tyrants are never punished. Voltaire

Clever Tyrants Punished Never

The mob is the mother of tyrants. Diogenes

Mother Tyrants Mob

We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on fire. A line of monks link arms in a human chain. Crowds surge, soldiers fire, gusts of rage pull down the monuments of tyrants, and maybe, sometimes, justice rises from the flames. Nancy Gibbs

Justice Fruit Sometimes Fire Before Revolution Down Rage Sets Birth Soldiers Tyrants Monuments Rises Crowds Student Like Know Looks Arms Himself Surge Tank Line Link Seller Flames Human Maybe Stands Chain Monks Pull

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. William Penn

God Obedience Rebellion Tyrants

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. Andre Malraux

Love Truth Time History Remember Fall Think Despair Way Tyrants Seem Through Invincible Always Been End Won In The End Then

The greatest bulwark against an overreaching government, as tyrants know, is a religious population. That is because religious people form communities of interest adverse to government control of their lives; religious communities rely on their families and each other rather than an overarching government utilizing force. Ben Shapiro

Government People Control Other Tyrants Religious Religious People Rather Rely Adverse Know Force Because Greatest Government Control Bulwark Families Than Form Interest Against Communities Each Population Utilizing Lives

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

Good Free States Tyrants Security Excessive

A great nation like the United States has many and varied interests, and we need both to do business with tyrants and to engage constantly in multilateral diplomacy. Elliott Abrams

Great Business Diplomacy Nation States Tyrants Constantly Great Nation Varied Both Like Interests Engage Many Multilateral United United States Need

All men would be tyrants if they could. Daniel Defoe

Men Tyrants Would Would-Be Could

Tyrants seldom want pretexts. Edmund Burke

Tyrants Seldom Want

I think great artists have no time to waste with having disproportionate egos and irrational requests. They're too focused on their work to actually lose themselves in hysterical spirals where they become monsters or tyrants. Xavier Dolan

Work Time Great Become Lose Think Too Monsters I Think Tyrants Focused Spirals Having No Time Hysterical Irrational Egos Artists Where Themselves Requests Waste Disproportionate Actually

The only way to tyrantproof the presidency is not to elect tyrants to the presidency. Benjamin Wittes

Presidency Way Tyrants Only Elect

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