Tyrant Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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