Tyrants Quotes

There is no tyrant as merciless as pain.

— Stephen King

All men would be tyrants if they could.

— Daniel Defoe

Taxation without representation is tyranny.

— James Otis

“Peace among us, war to the tyrants.”

— Eugène Pottier

Not as tyrants have we come, but as liberators.

— Adolf Hitler

“Can tyrants but by tyrants conquered be”

— George Gordon Byron

Today's rebel is tomorrow's tyrant.

— Ariel Durant

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

— Bryan Procter

I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.

— Twyla Tharp

“ Against fashion, even tyrants struggle in vain, she thought.”

— S.M. Stirling

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

— Albert Camus

In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.

— Alexander Pope

A tyrant is the worst disease, and the cause of all others.

— William Blake

When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys

— George Orwell

To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

— C. S. Lewis

When dictators and tyrants seek to destroy the freedoms of men, their first target is the legal profession and through it the…

— Leon Jaworski

The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of…

— Horace

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

Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis. He snatched the lightning from the sky and the sceptre from tyrants.

— Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

Without some form of censorship, propaganda in the strict sense of the word is impossible. In order to conduct propaganda there must…

— Walter Lippmann

Mugabe's resignation fascinates because the fall of tyrants is always a family story, decline of the father, writ large. What a strange…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with their daily…

— Aristotle

It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap…

— Emma Thompson

The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life…

— George Orwell

They would be subject to no one, neither to lawful ruler nor to the reign of law, but would be altogether and…

— Plato

The great masses of men, though theoretically free, are seen to submit supinely to oppression and exploitation of a hundred abhorrent sorts.…

— H. L. Mencken

All three states - the Lacedaemonian, the Cretan, and the Carthaginian - nearly resemble one another, and are very different from any…

— Aristotle

Today the primary threat to the liberties of the American people comes not from communism, foreign tyrants or dictators. It comes from…

— George Allen

“Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies we are…

— Abigail Adams

I consider myself to be a man of principle. But, what man does not? Even the cutthroat, I have noticed, considers his…

— Brandon Sanderson

I've personally demanded that tyrants let their people go. I've tried to feed the hungry, clothe the poor, protect the elderly and…

— Gary Ackerman

“Tyrants are willing to commit to anything…including mass murder to maintain their domination over every human being alive. They abuse the lives…

— R.G. Risch

One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an…

— Joseph Story

The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also…

— George Orwell

What constitutes the bulwark of our liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea-coasts, our army and our…

— Abraham Lincoln

“For resistance to succeed, two boundaries must be crossed. First, ideas about change must engage people of various backgrounds who do not…

— Timothy Snyder

The Jehovah of the Jews is a suspicious tyrant, who breathes nothing but blood, murder, and carnage, and who demands that they…

— Baron d'Holbach

This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical,…

— Frederick Douglass

Mew," the kitten retorted, locking gazes with him. It had the expression common to all kittens, that of a tyrant in the…

— Scott Lynch