Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Men Quotes, Tyrants Quotes

Each man too is a tyrant in tendency, because he would impose his idea on others; and their trick is their natural defence. Jesuswould absorb the race; but Tom Paine or the coarsest blasphemer helps humanity by resisting this exuberance of power.

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By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home."

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The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.

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No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other.

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What want these outlaws conquerors should have but history's purchased page to call them great?

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A tyrant is the worst disease, and the cause of all others.

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My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.

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Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

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There is only one force of history that can break the reign of hatred and resentment and expose the pretensions of tyrants and reward the hopes of the decent and tolerant. And that is the force of human freedom.

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Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.

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See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.

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Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.

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There is only one force of history that can break the reign of hatred and resentment and expose the pretensions of tyrants and reward the hopes of the decent and tolerant. And that is the force of human freedom.

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Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.

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Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice-- The weakness and the wickedness of luxury-- The negligence--the apathy--the evils Of sensual sloth--produces ten thousand tyrants, Whose delegated cruelty surpasses The worst acts of one energetic master, However harsh and hard in his own bearing.

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Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.

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Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs.

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The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.

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Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true forms; but those which regard only the interest of the rulers are all defective and perverted forms, for they are despotic, whereas a state is a community of freemen.

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

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