“; There are no tyrants where there are no slaves.”
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José Rizal 64
Filipino writer, ophthalmologist, polyglot and nationalist 1861–1896Related quotes
“Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant.”
August 22
Debates in the Federal Convention (1787)
Context: 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.
Il giorno in cui i contadini saranno educati nel vero, i tiranni e gli schiavi saranno impossibili sulla terra.
Alla Società del Tiro in Ganzo, Caprera, 29 August 1864, in Scritti politici e militari, ricordi e pensieri inediti, p. 356.
Speech in the House of Commons (18 November, 1783). Compare: "And with necessity, / The tyrant's plea, / excus'd his devilish deeds", John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book iv, line 393.
“Are you a slave? Then you cannot be a friend. Are you a tyrant? Then you cannot have friends.”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
La féodalité n'est qu'un système d'Esclaves et de Tyrans; ma patrie veut-être libre, ne peut plus rien conserver dans ce qui tient à ce système.
[in Gracchus Babeuf avec les Egaux, Jean-Marc Shiappa, Les éditions ouvrières, 1991, 38, 27082 2892-7]
On feudalism
Vol. I, p. 268
William Lloyd Garrison 1805-1879 (1885)
“The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.”
Heathcliff (Ch. XI).
Wuthering Heights (1847)