Tyrants Quotes

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

Growth, Modern, Prejudice

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

Love, Friendship, Between

Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
Daniel Defoe

Nature, Men, Blood

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

Understand, Making, Anyone

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

May, Lord, Church

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

Good, Free, Security

I've personally demanded that tyrants let their people go. I've tried to feed the hungry, clothe the poor, protect the elderly and infirm, and defend the needy from the aggressively greedy. I've led a blessed life. What a kick for a kid from the projects.
Gary Ackerman

Life, Blessed, Poor

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.
Helen Dunmore

Simply, Century, Deny

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.
Richard Perle

Government, Human, Few

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

Worst, Russia, Poets

Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.
Jonathan Mayhew

Down, Here, Inspired

The 'Axis of Evil' was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well.
Michael Ledeen

Evil, Real, Knew

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

Lords, Affections, Affords

Let tyrants shake their iron rod.
William Billings

Iron, Shake, Rod

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