Love is a tyrant sparing none. —Pierre Corneille More about this quote Tags: love tyranny Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
About Pierre Corneille Pierre Corneille (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ kɔʁnɛj]; 6 June 1606 – 1 October 1684) was a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great 17th-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine.
More quotations from Pierre Corneille To win without risk is to triumph without glory. —Pierre Corneille More about this quote Tags: risk Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The greater the effort, the greater the glory. —Pierre Corneille More about this quote Tags: work effort glory Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Self-love is the source of all our other loves. —Pierre Corneille More about this quote Tags: love self-love Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To win without risk is to triumph without glory. —Pierre Corneille More about this quote Tags: risk Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The greater the effort, the greater the glory. —Pierre Corneille More about this quote Tags: work effort glory Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Self-love is the source of all our other loves. —Pierre Corneille More about this quote Tags: love self-love Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “tyranny” Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny. —Aeschylus More about this quote Tags: death fate tyranny Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email It is my intention to make my entire life a rejection of, a protest against the crimes and injustices of war and political tyranny which threaten to destroy the whole race of [humankind] and the world with [it] . . . . I make monastic silence a protest against the lies of politicians, propagandists, and agitators, and when I speak it is to deny that my faith and my church can ever be aligned with these forces of injustice and destruction. But it is true, nevertheless, that the faith in which I believe is also invoked by many who believe in war, believe in racial injustices, believe in self-righteous and lying forms of tyranny. My life must, then, be a protest against these also, and perhaps against these most of all. —Thomas Merton More about this quote Tags: justice war humanity politics life silence rejection church crime protest faith lies racism tyranny Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection. —Crystal Eastman More about this quote Tags: tyranny protection deceit Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Power concedes nothing without demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and this will continue till they have resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress. —Frederick Douglass More about this quote Tags: justice power wrong tyranny resistance demands submission Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email When 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. —Mahatma Gandhi More about this quote Tags: truth love history time inevitability tyranny murder Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny. —Aeschylus More about this quote Tags: death fate tyranny Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is my intention to make my entire life a rejection of, a protest against the crimes and injustices of war and political tyranny which threaten to destroy the whole race of [humankind] and the world with [it] . . . . I make monastic silence a protest against the lies of politicians, propagandists, and agitators, and when I speak it is to deny that my faith and my church can ever be aligned with these forces of injustice and destruction. But it is true, nevertheless, that the faith in which I believe is also invoked by many who believe in war, believe in racial injustices, believe in self-righteous and lying forms of tyranny. My life must, then, be a protest against these also, and perhaps against these most of all. —Thomas Merton More about this quote Tags: justice war humanity politics life silence rejection church crime protest faith lies racism tyranny Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection. —Crystal Eastman More about this quote Tags: tyranny protection deceit Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Power concedes nothing without demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and this will continue till they have resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress. —Frederick Douglass More about this quote Tags: justice power wrong tyranny resistance demands submission Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When 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. —Mahatma Gandhi More about this quote Tags: truth love history time inevitability tyranny murder Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email