{"quotes":[{"text":"If not for tragedy, tyrants, and injustice, there would be nothing to awaken and inspire dormant heroes. There is always a balance. Always.","author":"Steve Maraboli","tags":["hero","heroes","injustice","inspiration","life","perspective","tragedy","tyrants"],"id":35593,"author_id":"Steve+Maraboli"},{"text":"Do you want to know something about tyrants? When faced with death, they weep and they beg just like the rest of us.","author":"Melina Marchetta","tags":["death","tyrants"],"id":36629,"author_id":"Melina+Marchetta"},{"text":"I'm all for fighting tyranny and oppression.","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["activism","activist","demonstration","demonstrations","do-the-right-thing","fighting-oppression","fighting-tyrany","gadfly","human-rights","inspirational","motivational","oppression","people-power","protest","protesters","stand-up-for-your-rights","tyranny","tyrants","whistle-blower","whistle-blowers"],"id":51148,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"},{"text":"Tyrants have only one problem in life.They simply just wanna rule everything.","author":"Toba Beta","tags":["everything","life","problem","rule","simply","tyrants"],"id":79113,"author_id":"Toba+Beta"},{"text":"Ever since I arrived to a state of manhood, I have felt a sincere passion for liberty. The history of nations doomed to perpetual slavery, in consequence of yielding up to tyrants their natural born liberties, I read with a sort of philosophical horror; so that the first systematical and bloody attempt at Lexington, to enslave America, thoroughly electrified my mind, and fully determined me to take part with my country.","author":"Ethan Allen","tags":["country","determinaiton","horror","liberty","manhood","passion","slavery","tyrants"],"id":80858,"author_id":"Ethan+Allen"},{"text":"Both [Satan and Melkor/Morgoth] are loud in their defiance, claiming that they would 'rather rule in hell than serve in heaven'. One might have admired these rebel angels if one believed their defiance was in the name of liberty- however, both lied. Their rebellions were only provoked by envy and the usurpers' wishes to take the perceived tyrants' place. Never were two more natural tyrants than Morgoth and Satan.","author":"David Day","tags":["evil","liers","melkor","morgoth","tolkien","tyrants"],"id":107692,"author_id":"David+Day"},{"text":"Why independence, if the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow?","author":"José Rizal","tags":["independence","tyrants"],"id":108251,"author_id":"Jos%C3%A9+Rizal"},{"text":"Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.","author":"George W. Bush","tags":["freedom","tyrants","everywhere "],"id":130551,"author_id":"George+W.+Bush"},{"text":"Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the blows that the hammer could place upon it. The patience of the saints was stronger than the cruelty of tyrants.","author":"Charles Haddon Spurgeon","tags":["patience","tyrants"],"id":177665,"author_id":"Charles+Haddon+Spurgeon"},{"text":"When reading the history of the Jewish people, of their flight from slavery to death, of their exchange of tyrants, I must confess that my sympathies are all aroused in their behalf. They were cheated, deceived and abused. Their god was quick-tempered unreasonable, cruel, revengeful and dishonest. He was always promising but never performed. He wasted time in ceremony and childish detail, and in the exaggeration of what he had done. It is impossible for me to conceive of a character more utterly detestable than that of the Hebrew god. He had solemnly promised the Jews that he would take them from Egypt to a land flowing with milk and honey. He had led them to believe that in a little while their troubles would be over, and that they would soon in the land of Canaan, surrounded by their wives and little ones, forget the stripes and tears of Egypt. After promising the poor wanderers again and again that he would lead them in safety to the promised land of joy and plenty, this God, forgetting every promise, said to the wretches in his power:—'Your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness and your children shall wander until your carcasses be wasted.' This curse was the conclusion of the whole matter. Into this dust of death and night faded all the promises of God. Into this rottenness of wandering despair fell all the dreams of liberty and home. Millions of corpses were left to rot in the desert, and each one certified to the dishonesty of Jehovah. I cannot believe these things. They are so cruel and heartless, that my blood is chilled and my sense of justice shocked. A book that is equally abhorrent to my head and heart, cannot be accepted as a revelation from God.When we think of the poor Jews, destroyed, murdered, bitten by serpents, visited by plagues, decimated by famine, butchered by each, other, swallowed by the earth, frightened, cursed, starved, deceived, robbed and outraged, how thankful we should be that we are not the chosen people of God. No wonder that they longed for the slavery of Egypt, and remembered with sorrow the unhappy day when they exchanged masters. Compared with Jehovah, Pharaoh was a benefactor, and the tyranny of Egypt was freedom to those who suffered the liberty of God.While reading the Pentateuch, I am filled with indignation, pity and horror. Nothing can be sadder than the history of the starved and frightened wretches who wandered over the desolate crags and sands of wilderness and desert, the prey of famine, sword, and plague. Ignorant and superstitious to the last degree, governed by falsehood, plundered by hypocrisy, they were the sport of priests, and the food of fear. God was their greatest enemy, and death their only friend.It is impossible to conceive of a more thoroughly despicable, hateful, and arrogant being, than the Jewish god. He is without a redeeming feature. In the mythology of the world he has no parallel. He, only, is never touched by agony and tears. He delights only in blood and pain. Human affections are naught to him. He cares neither for love nor music, beauty nor joy. A false friend, an unjust judge, a braggart, hypocrite, and tyrant, sincere in hatred, jealous, vain, and revengeful, false in promise, honest in curse, suspicious, ignorant, and changeable, infamous and hideous:—such is the God of the Pentateuch.","author":"Robert G. 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