#tyrant

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. ↗

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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

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Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

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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

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

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend. ↗

— Aeschylus

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The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants. ↗

— Albert Camus

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The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

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With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. ↗

— William Lloyd Garrison

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