Tyrant Quotes

It's important to remember that Bush Derangement Syndrome on the left - comparing him to Hitler, calling him a terrorist and a tyrant - preceded Obama Derangement Syndrome on the right.

A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant.

Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death.

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

The tyrant always talks as if he's preserving the best interests of his people when he actually acts to undermine them.

The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

God himself has no right to be a tyrant.

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.

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.

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!

I can't imagine anyone who doesn't think the world is safer without a tyrant who murdered his own people, used weapons of mass destruction against them and flouted the world for so many years.

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.

My dad was a tyrant. He used to physically beat the crap out of us.

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

I loved Jack Ford. I got him in his later days, and he was a total tyrant and a total autocrat and an Irish drunk. But I had a great time.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

I don't think I could be happy as an actor if there was a tyrant on the set.

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.