Nostradamus Quotes

Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization.

There is no more contemptible poison than power over one's fellow men.

There are no tyrants where there are no slaves.

Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomen. To the same degree that I do not understand power, I do understand those who oppose power, who criticize power, who contest power, especially those who rebel against power imposed by brutality.

The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.

Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.

If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

Conquerors never, never conquer a nation to bring freedom. They brought control.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

All men would be tyrants if they could.

Let tyrants shake their iron rod.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

The future condition of the conquered power depends on the will of the conquerer.

Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.

I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

The house of Austria has publicly used every effort to deprive the country of its legitimate Independence and Constitution, designing to reduce it to a level with the other provinces long since deprived of all freedom, and to unite all in a common sink of slavery.

There is not an example on record of any free state holding a province of the same extent and population without disastrous consequences. The nations conquered and held as a province have, in time, retaliated by destroying the liberty of their conquerors through the corrupting effect of extended patronage and irresponsible power.

No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed to serve the despot is the bitterest, the saddest matter of history; it is the saddest sight in our own day.

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.