Source: Prometheus Bound, line 35 (tr. Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
“Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel!”
Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967) Argentine Marxist revolutionary
As quoted in An American Savage (2003) by J. Flash (Jeff Flashinski), p. 144
Variant: Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer
Nos plus cruels ennemis sont nos proches... Les rois n'ont ni frères, ni fils, ni mère.
Source: About Catherine de' Medici (1842), Part II: The Ruggieri's Secret, Ch. V: The Alchemists.
“Fear made the gods; audacity has made kings.”
Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (1707–1777) French writer
La crainte fit les dieux; l'audace a fait les rois.
During the French Revolution; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 46.
Boris III of Bulgaria (1894–1943) Tsar of Bulgaria
Hermann Göring, Third Reich politician, to a Bulgarian correspondent.
Boris III of Bulgaria (1894–1943) Tsar of Bulgaria
Hermann Göring, Third Reich politician, to a Bulgarian correspondent, World War: Lowlands of 1941 http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,772601-4,00.html, The Time, Monday, 20 January 1941
Sara Bareilles (1979) American pop rock singer-songwriter and pianist
"King of Anything"
Lyrics, Kaleidoscope Heart (2009)
“Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.”
John Irving book The Cider House Rules
Source: The Cider House Rules
“New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
The Life of Pope
Lives of the English Poets (1779–81)
