#tyrant

My dad was a tyrant. He used to physically beat the crap out of us. ↗

— Dennis Wilson

#crap #dad #out #physically #tyrant

God himself has no right to be a tyrant. ↗

— William Godwin

#himself #right #tyrant

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

#between #commerce #disinterested #equals #friendship

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

— Elbert Hubbard

#every #freedom #himself #lived #tyrant

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#cease #country #democracy #democratic #effectively

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

— Albert Camus

#always #been #particular #people #tyrants

Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

#apostle #common #down #here #inspired

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

— Voltaire

#before #destroying #laws #shade #slight

Clever tyrants are never punished. ↗

— Voltaire

#never #punished #tyrants

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

#only #order #reagan #ronald #ronald reagan