Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Better a bad excuse, than none at all.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
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.
Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
God himself has no right to be a tyrant.
This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
God's only excuse is that he does not exist.
An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.
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.