"It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting."

Tyranny, Tyrant, Poverty, People, Power

30

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting."

Exlpore more Tyranny quotes

"From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

Tyranny, Ironcurtain, Trouble

"As a result of this greed for power, the poor is not only silenced but also oppressed."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Tyranny, Greed, Power, Oppression, Silencing

"Nothing in the Grimmerie on how to depose a tyrant - nothing useful... Nothing there that described why men and women could turn out so horrible. Or so wonderful - if that ever happens anymore."

Gregory Maguire, American Novelist

Tyranny, Goodness, Evil, Knowledge

"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Tyranny, May, Victims

"A tyrant has uncommon moral compass."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Tyranny, Morality, Power, Truth, Wisdom

"One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants."

Marquis de Sade, French Novelist

Tyranny, Kings

"I will have thee, as our rarer monsters are, painted upon a pole,and underwrit: "Here you may see the tyrant, Macbeth."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Tyranny, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Power

"Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss."

Alan Moore, British Writer

Tyranny, Authority, Power, Control, Suffering

"The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy."

Charles de Montesquieu, French Philosopher

Tyranny, Apathy, Democracy, Public

"Do you wish to take control of your life? Begin by focusing on steering the storm, rather than where the lightening strikes."

Gary Hopkins, American Author

Tyranny, Focus, Control, Mindset, Action

Explore more quotes by Aristotle

"The physician heals Nature makes well."

Healing

"Happiness is activity of soul."

Happiness

"All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established."

Morality

"I have gained this by philosophy. I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law."

Philosophy

"Now to exert oneself and work for the sake of amusement seems silly and utterly childish. But to amuse oneself in order that one may exert oneself, as Anacharsis puts it, seems right; for amusement is a sort of relaxation, and we need relaxation because we cannot work continuously. Relaxation, then, is not an end; for it is taken for the sake of activity."

Work

"Tis the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

Education

"There is no great genius without a mixture of madness."

Wisdom

"Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last."

Wisdom

"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal."

Justice

"The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead."

Education