#tyrants

Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states. ↗

— Demosthenes

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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. ↗

— Richard Perle

#does #example #few #for example #france

One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

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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

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Tyrants have only one problem in life. They simply just wanna rule everything. ↗

— Toba Beta

#life #problem #rule #simply #tyrants

Voldemort himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back! ↗

— J.K. Rowling

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It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

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Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them. ↗

— Voltaire

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

#between #commerce #disinterested #equals #friendship

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

#behaves #being #care #children #culture