Quotes having the keyword Tyrant
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
by Thomas Jefferson (President, American , born in 1743) keywords: according, action, add, always, around, because, drawn, equal, individual, law, liberty, limits, often, others, our, rightful, rights, tyrant, us, violates, will , within The tyrant always talks as if he's preserving the best interests of his people when he actually acts to undermine them.
by Ramman Kenounkeywords: acts, actually, always, best, his, interests, preserving, talks, them, tyrant , undermine We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandated of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them.
by Carl Levin (Politician, American , born in 1934) keywords: begin, belief, building, common, delivering, destruction, hussein, ignored, mandated, mass, means, nations, peace, region, saddam, stability, them, threat, tyrant, united , weapons Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.
by Marshall McLuhan (Sociologist, Canadian , born in 1911) keywords: club, comfort, disguised, fist, flocks, his, market, researcher, rules, shepherds, today, tyrant, utility , ways Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.
by James Otis (Lawyer, American , born in 1725) keywords: also, any, commission, control, every, imprison, legal, manner, may, murder, realm, tyrant, within , writ When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
by Plato (Philosopher , Greek) keywords: always, conquest, disposed, enemies, fear, foreign, leader, may, more, nothing, order, other, require, some, stirring, them, then, treaty, tyrant, up , war Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything.
by John Polkinghorne (Physicist, British , born in 1930) keywords: against, brings, cosmic, everything, god, idea, reacted, strongly, tyrant , whitehead More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.
by Dennis Prager (Journalist, American , born in 1948) keywords: bureaucrats, century, dictators, done, faceless, harm, more, than , tyrant Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.
by Matthew Prior (Poet, English , born in 1664) keywords: amorous, anger, cruel, dart, escape, fantastic, hard, heart, how, most, obey, punished, refuse, sway, those, thy, tyrant, yoke , your Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
by Francois de La Rochefoucauld (Writer, French , born in 1970) keywords: age, death, forbids, old, pain, pleasures, tyrant, under , youth We have to bring stability to Iraq, otherwise we will be faced with a future dilemma of sending our loved ones into harms way to stop a civil war or the rise of a new tyrant born from the instability that we created.
by Jay Rockefeller (Politician, American , born in 1937) keywords: born, bring, civil, created, dilemma, faced, future, harms, instability, into, iraq, loved, new, ones, otherwise, our, rise, sending, stability, stop, tyrant, war, way , will A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.
by Bertrand Russell (Philosopher, British , born in 1872) keywords: entering, eternal, image, into, obtained, outside, picturing, regards, stream, than, things, think, time, truer, tyrant, view, which , world I loved Jack Ford. I got him in his later days, and he was a total tyrant and a total autocrat and an Irish drunk. But I had a great time.
by Richard Widmark (Actor, American , born in 1914) keywords: autocrat, days, drunk, ford, got, great, had, him, his, irish, jack, later, loved, time, total , tyrant
