This quote by Aesop is a warning against the dangers of tyranny. It suggests that tyrants will use any excuse to justify their overbearing actions, no matter how lightweight or unjustified. This is due to the fact that tyrants are driven by their own selfish desires and will do whatever it requires to get what they desire. The quote indicates that tyrants will use any reason to manipulate and control people, even if it suggests lying or utilizing false information. It also recommends that tyrants will utilize any reason to prevent responsibility for their actions. This quote functions as a reminder that autocrats will constantly discover a method to validate their overbearing behavior, no matter how unjustified it might be. It is an alerting to be familiar with the reasons tyrants use and to be alert in withstanding them.
About the Author
This quote is written / told by Aesop between 620 BC and 564 BC. He was a famous Author from Greece.
The author also have 41 other quotes.
"A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne"
Georges Clemenceau, Leader
"Clever tyrants are never punished"
Voltaire, Writer
"Tyrants seldom want pretexts"
Edmund Burke, Statesman
"The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea"
John Adams, President
"Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms"
Aristotle, Philosopher
"Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure"
Ambrose Bierce, Journalist
"God himself has no right to be a tyrant"
William Godwin, Writer
"With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost"
William Lloyd Garrison, Journalist
"Better a bad excuse, than none at all"
William Camden, Historian
"In the due exercise of your official power, in strictest accordance with law and the Constitution, you can deprive the enemy of that which, above all else, has given, and still gives him, aid and comfort"
