“I want the next goddamn tyrant who tries to burn the past down to choke on the ash.” — Elijah Stepanovich Copy Share Image
When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The worst kind of tyrant is one that is righteously wrong” — rassool jibraeel snyman Copy Share Image
“A cowardly tyrant only remembers his own greatness in imagination.” — Duop Chak Wuol Copy Share Image
This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,Was once thought honest. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I shout at people... I am told that I'm a tyrant, but I still get things done, so that is fine. — David Tang Copy Share Image
The very freedom which the sinner supposedly exercises in his self-indulgence is only another proof that he is ruled by the tyrant. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway,… — Matthew Prior Copy Share Image
The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend He now dare… — Joanna Baillie Copy Share Image
A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. — Plato Copy Share Image
Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke. — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
The tyrant should take heed to what he doth, Since every victim-carrion turns to use, And drives a chariot, like a god… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“It seemed to me it would be better to die standing up to a tyrant than to survive as a tool of… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
“Do you mean that the tyrant will dare to use violence against the people who fathered him, and raise his hand against… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Woe is the mind of the common man, so easily controlled by the prospect of an ambition never to be truly attained.… — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
What a thing, Europe. Europe! The cultured Europe! We are the barbarians, the Indians, the blacks, the southerners. How cynical is Europe.… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
“A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“To have reservations is to show true leadership. To have certainty without question, to lead people to battle with no qualms, or… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
Between a tyrant and a prince there is this single or chief difference, that the latter obeys the law and rules the… — John of Salisbury Copy Share Image
In 1979, Iranians carried out an illegitimate act: They overthrew a tyrant that the United States had imposed and supported, and moved… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The people’s silence is a tyrant’s greatest advocate. The less captives talked, the less they knew; the less they knew, the more… — John Kramer Copy Share Image
“The inflated ego of the tyrant is a curse to himself and his world – no matter how his affairs may prosper.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“It is inconceivable that any form of intelligence would waste so much time and effort to make such an inferior piece of… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
“He is tall, lean, violent. This place is his home. It is his playground. The children his playthings till they get their… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
They've got something they do it with, I think it's called a mocracy, and it means everyone in the whole country can… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“You are to make up your mind whether it is to be God or man. Whether you are to be free or… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
“The tyrant-father of Heaven, the one who created, hated and drove out the first woman, yoked men with a horrible curse, far… — R.S. Belcher Copy Share Image
“That figure stood for a long time wholly in the light; this arose from a certain legendary dimness evolved by the majority… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
