#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

Death is the tyrant of the imagination. ↗

— Barry Cornwall

#imagination #tyrant

Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#better #brutal #consequences #making #perhaps

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. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#comfort #disguised #fist #flocks #his

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 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 tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them. ↗

— Emily Bronte

#beneath #crush #down #grinds #him

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#bad #crushes #deplore #kills #loss

God himself has no right to be a tyrant. ↗