T Quotes
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“Tyranny is abhorrent, freedom benefits all, whereas violence benefits no one for long.”
Source: The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age
“Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.”
“Tyranny is always weakness”
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
“Tyranny Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem None rebels except subjects? The prince who Neglects or violates his trust is more A brigand than the robber-chief.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)
“Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.”
“Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch.”
“Tyranny is the exercise of some power over a man, which is not warranted by law, or necessary for the public safety. A people can never be deprived of their liberties, while they retain in their own hands, a power sufficient to any other power in the state.”
“Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.”
Source: Planning for Freedom: Let the Market System Work : a Collection of Essays and Addresses
“Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from whom it may.”
Source: A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present
“Tyranny is tyranny, no matter what its form; the free man will resist it if his courage serves.”
Source: The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses
“Tyranny is usually tempered with assassination, and Democracy must be tempered with culture. In the absence of this, it turns into a representation of collective folly.”
“Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing.”
“Tyranny knocks at the door when law is converted under the cloak of justice.”
“Tyranny knows no restraint of appetite.”
“Tyranny manifests, not as a result of any particular collective, political party, statesman, lawman, ideology or philosophy, but as a result of the human condition. We must not make the error in believing that the extermination of those we find “tyrannical” will in-turn result in the extermination of tyranny itself.”
Source: Sons of Liberty: Manifesto
“Tyranny may creep in under the outward forms of traditional law.”
“Tyranny must not prevail.”
“Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.”
Source: The Republic
“Tyranny of freedom is do what you like. There's a world gone crazy, cause it can't say no.”
“Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.”
Source: Letters to friends, family, and editors
“Tyranny seldom announces itself...In fact, a tyranny may exist without an individual tyrant. A whole government, even a democratically elected one, may be tyrannical.”
“Tyranny sets up its own echo-chamber.”
“Tyranny, like fog in the well known poem, often creeps in silently 'on little cat feet.'”
“Tyrant's main weapon is the Darkness. First, we will dispel the Darkness with the light of Justice and Truth!”
Source: To Be Tried As A Jew
“Tyrants always condemn and seek to replace the market process with government coercion because tyrants do not trust that people behaving voluntarily will do what the tyrants think they should do.”
“Tyrants and autocrats have always understood that literacy, learning, books and newspapers are potentially dangerous. They can put independent and even rebellious ideas in the heads of their subjects.”
Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“Tyrants and dictators will accept no other gods before them. They require disobedience to the First Commandment. They seek absolute control and are threatened by faith in God. They fear only the power they cannot possess - the power of truth. So they resent the living example of the devout, especially the devotion of a unique people chosen by God.”
“Tyrants are always assassinated too late. That is their great excuse.”
“Tyrants are but the spawn of Ignorance, Begotten by the slaves they trample on.”
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
“Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.”
Source: Dominations and Powers: Reflections on Liberty, Society, and Government
“Tyrants forego all respect for humanity in proportion as they are sunk beneath it. Taught to believe themselves of a different species, they really become so, lose their participation with their kind, and in mimicking the god dwindle into the brute.”
Source: The Miscellaneous Works
“Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.”
“Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“Tyrants have only one problem in life.
They simply just wanna rule everything.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“Tyrants know there is in the work of art an emancipatory force, which is mysterious only to those who do not revere it. Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and this is its whole secret.”
Source: Create Dangerously
“Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.”
Source: Classical (imaginary) Conversations: Greek, Roman, Modern
“Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men of spirit who might lead a revolution, by humbling the people, and making them incapable of decisive action.”
“Tyrants seldom want pretexts.”
“Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy.”
“Tyrants want us at each other's throats.
We need each other even more.
In isolation, it's so easy to think this is all there ever will be.
Together we remember the beauty, the love,
the humor, the music, the dance of life--
the belief that it is all a cycle,
that it will not always be that way.”
“Tyre management has always been part of the qualifying strategy and the race itself. I dont know about others; I just know that I always push as much as I can to obtain the best result possible.”
“Tyrion, I know we do not always agree on policy, but it seems to me that I was wrong about you. You are not so big a fool as I imagined. In truth, I realize now that you have been a great help. For that I thank you. You must forgive me if I have spoken to you harshly in the past.”
“Must I?” He gave her a shrug, a smile. “Sweet sister, you have said nothing that requires forgiveness.”
“Today, you mean?” They both laughed . . . and Cersei leaned over and planted a quick, soft kiss on his brow.
Too astonished for words, Tyrion could only watch her stride off down the hall, Ser Preston at her side. “Have I lost my wits, or did my sister just kiss me?” he asked Bronn when she was gone.
“Was it so sweet?”
“It was . . . unanticipated.” Cersei had been behaving queerly of late. Tyrion found it very unsettling. “I am trying to recall the last time she kissed me. I could not have been more than six or seven. Jaime had dared her to do it."
“The woman’s finally taken note of your charms.”
“No,” Tyrion said. “No, the woman is hatching something. Best find out what, Bronn. You know I hate surprises.”
Source: A Clash of Kings
“Tyrion Lannister could not have been more astonished if Aegon the Conqueror himself had burst into the room, riding on a dragon and juggling lemon pies.”
Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons
“Tyrion let the eunuch help him mount. "Lord Varys," he said from the saddle, "sometimes I feel as though you are the best friend I have in King's Landing and sometimes I feel you are my worst enemy." "How odd. I think quite the same of you.”
Source: A Clash of Kings: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Two
“Tyrion pushed forward. "MY LORDS! " he shouted. He had to shout, to have any hope of being heard.
His father raised a hand. Bit by bit, the hall grew silent.”
Source: A Storm of Swords
“Tyrion wondered what it would be like to have a twin, and decided that he would rather not know. Bad enough to face himself in a looking glass every day.”
Source: A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One
“Tyrion: My gentle sister seems to have mistaken me for Ned Stark. Bronn: I hear he was taller. Tyrion: Not after Joff took off his head.”
“Tyson [Chandler] encouraged me and was like, if that's what you want to wear, wear that.”
“Tyson charged at the Cyclops leader, Ma Gasket, her chain-mail dress spattered with mud and decorated with broken spears. She gawked at Tyson and started to say, “Who—?” 463/508 Tyson hit her in the head so hard, she spun in a circle and landed on her rump. “Bad Cyclops Lady!” he bell owed. “General Tyson says GO AWAY!” He hit her again, and Ma Gasket broke into dust.”
“Tyson dropped the two warriors he was about to tie into a knot and jogged after us. He jumped on the centaur's back. 'Dude!' the centaur groaned, almost buckling under Tyson's weight. 'Do the words "low-carb diet" mean anything to you?”
Source: Percy Jackson: The Complete Series