“Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could”
Daniel Defoe
“The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach”
Sophocles
“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
“The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything”
Clarence Darrow
“Remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants”
William Penn
“War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.”
Charles Caleb Colton