Egyptian Proverb Quotes

Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.

All men would be tyrants if they could.

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Conquerors never, never conquer a nation to bring freedom. They brought control.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

There's a certain amount of tyranny in all of us to some extent, and in some people it's much more developed than in others. It's a different balance which makes us all different.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

… so long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

Whether the institution to be defended is slavery, political absolutism, or the absolutism of the head of a family, we are always expected to judge of it from its best instances; and we are presented with pictures of loving exercise of authority on one side, loving submission to it on the other

Necessity, the tyrant's plea.

Power corrupts; but absolute power is really neat.

There are no tyrants where there are no slaves.

To repress rebellion is to maintain the status quo, a condition which binds the mortal creature in a state of intellectual or physical slavery. But it is impossible to chain man merely by slaving his body; the mind also must be held, and to accomplish this, fear is the accepted weapon. The common man must fear life, fear death, fear God, fear the Devil, and fear most the overlords, the keepers of his destiny.

The tyrant is a child of pride.

The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.

The tyrant claims freedom to kill freedom, and yet keep it for himself.

The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

Let tyrants shake their iron rod.

The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.