Zitat des Tages über Tyrannen / Tyrants:
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
The big tyrants never face justice.
Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
Clever tyrants are never punished.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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.
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
Let tyrants shake their iron rod.
The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
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.
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.
If you want to be a leader whom people follow with absolute conviction, you have to be a likable leader. Tyrants and curmudgeons with brilliant vision can command a reluctant following for a time, but it never lasts. They burn people out before they ever get to see what anyone is truly capable of.
Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.
Modern tyrants are terror managers. Do not allow your shock to be turned against your freedom.
If women were in charge of everything, there would be women tyrants. If black people were in charge, there would be black tyrants. If Hispanics were in charge, then Hispanic tyrants.
The 'Axis of Evil' was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well.
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
The mob is the mother of tyrants.
In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
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.
May the Lord destroy all the tyrants of the church. Amen.
Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
I do think that this planet is a totally unjust planet. I mean throughout history - history paints a beautiful picture when it's written by the victorious, but it's a planet that belongs to the strong and the more able, and usually they are tyrants. So basically, I don't see justice happening to the crushed and the weak.
It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice.
Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff.
