Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them
Voltaire
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Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
VOLTAIRE The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Some people don’t realize how important of a back bone you are to them and the valuable support yo...
GINA JAMMAL After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
{Said i...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Confidence in another man's virtue is no slight evidence of one's own
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Now they have a riddle.
- Criminal Minds
DEYTH BANGER They preserve the soil, they keep erosion down and give wonderful shade. It'll be awhile before thes...
ANNE MOORE But some love not the method of your first; Romance they count it, throw't away as dust; If I should...
JOHN BUCHAN They ran during the hottest part of the day. The course really doesn't have any shade; it is all out...
EMILY TUCKER It's right back where they were before. They don't have the revenue to support what they want to bui...
MARIANNE BICHSEL Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem ...
MAHATMA GANDHI I'd rather they come an hour before and read the program notes, so that they have some slight introd...
JAMES LEVINE Know the laws before you break them
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA We do have tough gun laws in Massachusetts. I support them. I won't chip away at them. I believe...
MITT ROMNEY For as good habits of the people require good laws to support them, so laws, to be observed, need go...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants ...
MAHATMA GANDHI Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade, just as painting does, or music. If you are bor...
TRUMAN CAPOTE Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born...
TRUMAN CAPOTE Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born...
TRUMAN CAPOTE When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There...
MAHATMA GANDHI When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. Ther...
MAHATMA GANDHI The Laws of Sowing;The sower sows quality seeds,because he knows quality seeds begeths quality harve...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) People who don't like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them.
L.M. MONTGOMERY There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; ...
MARTIN GARDNER Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushin...
RUSH LIMBAUGH Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be...
EDMUND BURKE Voldemort himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much...
J.K. ROWLING When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There ...
MAHATMA GANDHI Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. The...
ANDRE MALRAUX When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. Ther...
MAHATMA GANDHI When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth
and love has always won. There ...
MAHATMA GANDHI Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. The...
ANDRE MAIRAUX When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There ...
MOHANDAS GANDHI In fact, many of them were later dismissed from the German military and sent to forced labor camps, ...
BRYAN MARK RIGG Not only are they destroying architecture of note, they are destroying history.
DAVID BAHLMAN Some boundless contiguity of shade.
WILLIAM COWPER Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are.
JULIAN MCMAHON Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue ...
JONATHAN MAYHEW It's very hot. There is no shade. We need to get provisions to them, ... They have zero.
RAY NAGIN Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
THE LAWS OF MANU The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
ALBERT CAMUS Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.
BILL RICHARDSON It is always imagined before it is lived. In the world of thought, imaginations are lives, but peopl...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Tyrannical men, rarely announce they are tyrants. Instead, Man must use their eyes and ears to spot ...
ENRIQUE VEGA This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe,
For freedom only deals the deadly blow;
Then sheathe...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Contest each other, point out different issues, have heated open debates... but be careful about des...
P.S. RUCKMAN Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of obser...
HARRIET MARTINEAU Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of obser...
HARRIET MARTINEAU Reasons... questions... what they have in common?
- All get finded in the hard way.
DEYTH BANGER Writers want publicity all the time, and they are always nagging their agents and publishers to give...
KATE THOMPSON They have to be told that they must begin destroying their stocks of chicken.
ANEES AHMED The privacy laws are paramount. They come before even common sense...
MICHAEL SWANWICK Chelsea were very strong favorites before the first leg but we got a good result and now they are on...
JAMIE CARRAGHER I think there should be better child support laws to make it easier for those single moms to support...
GLORIA ALLRED since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to ligh...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
ARISTOTLE There are some men who are counted great because they represent the actuality of their own age, and ...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY I didn't realize I would be maybe researching quotes from Voltaire and Mussolini before this was ove...
MIKE LYNCH Think how great a proportion of mankind, consists of weak and ignorant men and women, and of inexper...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no cour...
ELTON JOHN When candidates have asked me for support before, they have asked for more than a check.
J. B. PRITZKER A lot of these countries do have some weapons laws but they are very old-fashioned and vague.
JEAN BAKER Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them
GEORGE SANTAYANA Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something,...
FRANK ZAPPA The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and e...
JOHN ADAMS We have some of the weakest labor laws in the industrialized world.
BILL SCOTT We have some of the most stringent abortion laws in the country.
GINNY COPENHEFER When every new football season starts, we get all excited about the Browns. But no matter how bad th...
DOLPH ZIGGLER A new medium always has a period when it is struggling inside the confining box of an earlier medium...
DAVE MORRIS This court decision is consistent with the fundamental principle that patent laws exist to support a...
HANK MCKINNELL Our support professionals will be coming through the ranks of support delivery and some of them will...
GREG PIKE Families with disabled children are praying for their kids to die before them because they have no s...
SAFAK PAVEY When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f...
GARY F EVANS... It's not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It's who they have coming wit...
COLIN POWELL For the most part, people strenuously resist any redefinition of morality, because it shakes them to...
STEFAN MOLYNEUX Tyrants have only one problem in life.
They simply just wanna rule everything.
TOBA BETA [A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in ...
DANIEL QUINN There's always a temptation, I think, among some historical writers to shade things toward the m...
DIANA GABALDON The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natur...
BENJAMIN RUSH There are only two kinds of lamp shade customers. Ones who want exactly what they had before and one...
SHIRLEY ALLEN I've always had to have some kind of failure before I was successful.
DAN O'BRIEN He set it up before he died to give some students a shot at doing what they believe in and some mora...
DEBBIE YOUNG Young tyrants are more genocidal than old tyrants - with the exception of Khomeini.
JOHN MCCARTHY We would love to see grizzlies taken off the Endangered Species list - when they're ready, ... But t...
LOUISA WILLCOX The support of Steelers fans is always strong, especially when they get in the playoffs. The farther...
JEFF HENNION I think overall, they have a slight downturn in sales across the country.
ANDREW BALLARD There may be a myriad of laws that have some relevance.
ANDY FISHER A constantly impoverished and dulled nation becomes an easily swayed mass until it learns to rise ag...
MARIANA FULGER How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how
horrible is it to be a mischievous and...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pa...
FLORENCE KING Most of them are making as much as they were before, or more in some cases.
ANDY SANTERRE Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws.
KARL KRAUS I love cheerleading because of the adrenaline rush right before a competition. My mom was always the...
LATOYA HOLLAND Heroes don't always have capes, badges or uniforms. Sometimes, they support those who do.
ANDREA RANDALL Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step ...
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