“When you fight a war against a tyrant, who do you kill? You kill the victims of the tyrant.”
Howard Zinn (1922–2010) author and historian
“One who liberates his country by killing a tyrant is to be praised and rewarded.”
Trans. J.G. Dawson (Oxford, 1959), 44, 2 in O’Donovan, pp. 329-30
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Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist
2000s, 2001, Letters to a Young Contrarian (2001)
“The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.”
Carol Ryrie Brink book Magical Melons
Source: Caddie Woodlawn's Family
John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States
Ch. 18 http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch18s17.html <br class="br">1780s, A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787) <br class="br">Context: The right of a nation to kill a tyrant, in cases of necessity, can no more be doubted, than to hang a robber, or kill a flea. But killing one tyrant only makes way for worse, unless the people have sense, spirit and honesty enough to establish and support a constitution guarded at all points against the tyranny of the one, the few, and the many. Let it be the study, therefore, of lawgivers and philosophers, to enlighten the people's understandings and improve their morals, by good and general education; to enable them to comprehend the scheme of government, and to know upon what points their liberties depend; to dissipate those vulgar prejudices and popular superstitions that oppose themselves to good government; and to teach them that obedience to the laws is as indispensable in them as in lords and kings.
Cyrano de Bergerac (1619–1655) French novelist, dramatist, scientist and duelist
The Other World (1657)
“I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.”
Catherine the Great (1729–1796) Empress of Russia
As quoted in The Historians' History of the World (1904) by Henry Smith Williams, p. 423
As quoted in The Affairs of Women: A Modern Miscellany (2006) by Colin Bingham, p. 367
Variant: I praise loudly. I blame softly.
Muhammad (570–632) Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam
Al-Tirmidhi, Hadith 537
Sunni Hadith
“I shall also pass over the bygone times of our cruel tyrants, whose notoriety was spread over to far distant countries; so that Porphyry, that dog who in the east was always so fierce against the church, in his mad and vain style added this also, that "Britain is a land fertile in tyrants."”
Et tacens vetustos immanium tyrannorum annos, qui in aliis longe positis regionibus vulgati sunt, it ut Porphyrius rabidus orientalis adversus ecclesiam canis dementiae suae ac vanitatis stilo hoc etiam adnecteret: ""Britannia"", inquiens, ""fertilis provincia tyrannorum"".
Gildas De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae
Et tacens vetustos immanium tyrannorum annos, qui in aliis longe positis regionibus vulgati sunt, it ut Porphyrius rabidus orientalis adversus ecclesiam canis dementiae suae ac vanitatis stilo hoc etiam adnecteret: "Britannia", inquiens, "fertilis provincia tyrannorum".
Section 4.
Gildas's quotation is in fact from St. Jerome's Epistula 133.9.
De Excidio Britanniae (On the Ruin of Britain)