Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
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"Armistice - or Peace?", published in The Evening Standard (11 November 1937)Winston Churchill
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Disgust is expressed by violence, and it is to be noted of our intellectual temper that violence is a quality which is felt to have a peculiarly intellectual sanction. Our preference, even as articulated by those who are most mild in their persons, is increasingly for the absolute and extreme, of which we feel violence to be the true sign. The gentlest of us will know that the tigers of wrath are to be preferred to the horses of instruction and will consider it intellectual cowardice to take into account what happens to those who ride tigers.
Lionel Trilling
Grandfather, when you saw the tiger were you scared? Bad people scare me, not tigers.
Grandfather, have you ever run into bad people?
There aren’t many tigers but lots of bad people, only you can’t shoot people.Gao Xingjian
One of the neighbors found Nasreddin scattering crumbs all around his house.
"Why are you doing that?" he asked.
"I'm keeping the tigers away," replied Nasreddin.
"But there aren't any tigers around here," said the neighbor.
"That's right," said Nasreddin. "You see how well it works?"Nasreddin
One may ride upon a tiger's back but it is fatal to dismount.
Ernest Bramah
Even after killing ninety nine tigers the Maharaja should beware of the hundredth.
Kalki (R. Krishnamurthy) Krishnamurthy
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