#tyrant

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#extinguished #heart #keeps #minds #moderation

It was known in the mid 90s already that Saddam Hussein was a dangerous tyrant that he had already launched aggressions against Iran, he had invaded Kuwait. ↗

— Douglas Feith

#aggressions #already #dangerous #had #hussein

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#every #puts #revolution #robes #successful

I don't think I could be happy as an actor if there was a tyrant on the set. ↗

— David Warner

#be happy #could #happy #i #set

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

#between #commerce #disinterested #equals #friendship

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. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#only #order #reagan #ronald #ronald reagan

I can't imagine anyone who doesn't think the world is safer without a tyrant who murdered his own people, used weapons of mass destruction against them and flouted the world for so many years. ↗

— Karen Hughes

#anyone #destruction #his #i #imagine

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#cease #country #democracy #democratic #effectively

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#anyone #average #average person #content #deliberately

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#heaven #liberty #little #men #tyrant