#tyrant

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. ↗

— Plato

#conquest #disposed #fear #foreign #leader

More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#bureaucrats #century #dictators #done #faceless

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. ↗

— Jay Rockefeller

#bring #civil #civil war #created #dilemma

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. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#entering #eternal #eternal world #i #i think

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#i #only #still #tyrant #voice

The tyrant always talks as if he's preserving the best interests of his people when he actually acts to undermine them. ↗

— Ramman Kenoun

#actually #always #best #best interests #his

The big tyrants never face justice. ↗

— George Galloway

#face #justice #never #tyrants

May the Lord destroy all the tyrants of the church. Amen. ↗