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If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver (Yr Quotes)
This tyrant, whole sole name blisters our tongues, was once thought honest; you have loved him well; he hath not touched you yet (Yr Quotes)
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves (Yr Quotes)
Because I know about the Holy Land, I've taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and - but you can't bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well (Yr Quotes)
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny (Yr Quotes)
I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means (Yr Quotes)
It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle (Yr Quotes)
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny (Yr Quotes)
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man (Yr Quotes)
Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne and fall of many kings (Yr Quotes)
When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty (Yr Quotes)
His demand springs not from edward's well meant honest love, bur from deceit, bred by necessity; for how can tyrants safely govern home unless abroad they purchase great alliance? (Yr Quotes)
Not poppy, nor mandragora, nor all the drowsy syrups of the world shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep which thou ow'dst yesterday (Yr Quotes)
But thus: if powers divine behold our human actions, as they do, I doubt not then but innocence shall make false accusation blush and tyranny tremble at patience (Yr Quotes)
I was a kid who got picked on in school, and now the guys beating up those kids were wearing red caps and using my music to fuel that aggression. But if they listen to the lyrics, the aggression is targeted at them (Yr Quotes)
You can play no part but Pyramus; for Pyramus is a sweet faced man, a proper man as one shall see in a summer's day, a most lovely gentlemanlike man (Yr Quotes)
Never durst poet touch a pen to write until his ink were temp'red with love's sighs; o, then his lines would ravish savage ears and plant in tyrants mild humility (Yr Quotes)
But, o thou tyrant, do not repent these things, for they are heavier than all thy woes can stir. Therefore betake thee to nothing but despair (Yr Quotes)
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies (Yr Quotes)
And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history (Yr Quotes)
The tyrant custom, most grave senators, hath made the flinty and steel couch of war My thrice driven bed of down (Yr Quotes)
There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you (Yr Quotes)
Then I despair. I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always (Yr Quotes)
Look here he comes! Not poppy nor mandragora, nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, shall eve med'cine thee to that sweet sleep which thou owedst yesterday (Yr Quotes)
You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task (Yr Quotes)
Bleed, bleed, poor country! Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure, for goodness dare not check thee; wear thou thy wrongs, the title is affeered! (Yr Quotes)
It is the hour to be drunken! To escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish (Yr Quotes)
It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish (Yr Quotes)
I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group (Yr Quotes)
I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation (Yr Quotes)