#tyrants

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

— Albert Camus

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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

— Frederick Douglass

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It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

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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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The tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. ↗

— Lyn Nofziger

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Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants. ↗

— William Penn

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Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. ↗

— William Penn

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