Slavery discourages arts and manufacturing ...[and] every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. Votes: 2
In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws. Votes: 2
The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the free. Votes: 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. Votes: 2
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? Votes: 2
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. Votes: 2
I do not see why I should be polite to tyrants, who slobber of humanitarianism and think only of their own petty interests. Votes: 0
Petty laws breed great crimes. Votes: 3 Ouida
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them. Votes: 8 Voltaire