Petty Tyrant Quotes

#1. Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of heaven on a Country. As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes & effects providence punishes national sins, by national calamities.

George Mason

#2. That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant, practiced in acts of despotism and cruelty.

George Mason

#3. Shakespeare wrote great poetry and preposterous plays. Who really cares, for example, which petty tyrant rules Milan? Or who succeeds to the throne of Denmark? Or why the barons ganged up on Richard II?

Edward Abbey

#4. In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.

Emile M. Cioran

#5. The films that I really enjoy now are films that are made by, for wont of a better word, mavericks.

Peter Mullan

#6. Fill me in on the details of your life."

"I thought you didn't give a shit."

"It'll give me something to do while I wait for you to stab me to death.

Christina Dodd

#7. In the struggle for justice, the only reward is the opportunity to be in the struggle. You can't expect that you're going to have it tomorrow. You just have to keep working on it.

Frederick Douglass

#8. Sometimes, life isn't about what you want to do but what you ought to do.

Chetan Bhagat

#9. His shirt had more wrinkles than a smoker's lips

Diana Rowland

#10. I can't love you unless I give you up.

Edith Wharton

#11. Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.

P. J. O'Rourke

#12. We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.

Leonard Cohen

#13. Go on in, Eddie," Jack said as he passed. "After all, there are other worlds than these and that fucking train rolls through all of them.

Stephen King

#14. Twitter has become a group conversation of that type that used to take place on trading floors.

Barry Ritholtz

#15. You must flow with the will of God, in the service of God, to obtain the power of God.

Benny Hinn

#16. Evil working in subtler fashion; marriages that proved to be no more then legalized slavery, and the careful manipulation of a bright and sensitive mind until its owner truly believed with all her heart in her own worthlessness. Betrayal, not once, but many times over.

Mercedes Lackey