Tyrant Quotes

God himself has no right to be a tyrant.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

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.

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.

The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

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.

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

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

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.

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

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

It was known in the mid 90s already that Saddam Hussein was a dangerous tyrant that he had already launched aggressions against Iran, he had invaded Kuwait.

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.

A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.