Eusebius of Caesarea Quotes

… most accursed, wicked, barbarous, cruel, unnatural, unjust and diabolical.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

Nothing has been left undone by the enemies of freedom. Every art and artifice, every cruelty and outrage has been practiced and perpetrated to destroy the rights of man. In this great struggle, every crime has been rewarded and every virtue has been punished.

The malignity and inhumanity of the Greek military authorities are undisguised.

Things are being done in Ireland which would disgrace the blackest annals of the lowest despotism in Europe.

Rats and conquerors must expect no mercy in misfortune.

There is not a criminal in a European jail, nor a cannibal in the South Sea Islands, whose indignation would not rise at the recital of what has been done.

History of Ireland—lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness everywhere—no principle, no heroism.

When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find that far more, and far more hideous, crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.

The king, you say, desires to do what is right. My clergy are banished, my possessions are taken from me, the sword hangs over my neck. Do you call this right?

History, which undertakes to record the transactions of the past, for the instruction of future ages, would ill deserve that honourable office if she condescended to plead the cause of tyrants, or to justify the maxims of persecution.

That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant, practiced in acts of despotism and cruelty.

His perfect kingdom of killing, suffering and pain Demands devotion, atrocities done in his name.

What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear?

No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.

Death is softer by far than tyranny.

I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.

Give the peasants neither life nor death.

The Georges were fair; they left all to the Government; but Anne was very bad and a tyrant. She tyrannised over the Irish. She died broken-hearted with all the bad things that were going on about her. For Queen Anne was very wicked; oh, very wicked, indeed!

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.

There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and no matter how old. This fact must lead all reasonable human beings, that is, all human beings who take evidence seriously, to draw only one possible conclusion: Human nature is not basically good.

The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.