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The women's movement is filled with tyrants, just as men's political movements are equally filled.
Neither Britain, a land fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets.
A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
The government is a tyrant living by theft, and therefore has no business to engage in any business.
A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover - but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.
The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them.
The will of the nation is one of those phrases most widely abused by schemers and tyrants of all ages.
Every rabbit-nation will find its tyrant! Oppressors are the destiny of coward and submissive nations!
Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants.
Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything.
Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.
All the cops are just workers for the one percent, and they don't even realize they're being exploited.
Industrialism, whether of the capitalist or socialist coloration, is the basic tyrant of the modern age.
I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.
In this, our age of infamy Man's choice is but to be A tyrant, traitor, prisoner: No other choice has he.
When you stop a dictator, there are always risks. But there are greater risks in not stopping a dictator.
The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
The 'Axis of Evil' was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well.
Twixt kings and tyrants there's this difference known; Kings seek their subjects' good: tyrants their own.
I will never, for the future, paint the portrait of a tyrant until his head lies before me on the scaffold.
Muse is a tyrant. It gets you out of bed in the twilight of the morning and forces you to create something!
The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.
I believe the vulpine greed of the corporate world is cut from the very same cloth as the tyrant of history.
Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant.
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
What kind of tyrant punishes everyone just to get back at the few he's mad at? I mean, besides Chris Christie.
In the States, I learned to fight for every idea. Sometimes, a director has to be a tyrant to keep the quality.
How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.
Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis. He snatched the lightning from the sky and the sceptre from tyrants.
Death is the ultimate weapon of the tyrant; resurrection does not make a covenant with death, it overthrows it.
Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.
That's what tyrants do, I guess. They make you covet their attention; they make you confuse attention for mercy.
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
Work becomes at once a delight and a tyrant. For even when the time comes and you can relax, you hardly know how.
The tyrant custom, most grave senators, Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war My thrice-driven bed of down.
Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism.
It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice.
Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his.
Power lies in reason, resolution, and truth. No matter how long the tyrant endures, he will be the loser at the end.
Do you want to know something about tyrants? When faced with death, they weep and they beg just like the rest of us.
The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.
He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns a nation.
A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants.
The moment a man claims a right to control the will of a fellow being by physical force, he is at heart a slaveholder.