Tyrant Quotes

“Love rules the world. Like a tyrant.
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— Jarod Kintz

There's no tyrant like a brain.

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

“A tyrant has uncommon moral compass.”

— Toba Beta

Let us render the tyrant no aid.

— Frederick Douglass

There is no tyrant as merciless as pain.

— Stephen King

“the mind is a tyrant”

— Deb Caletti

Today's rebel is tomorrow's tyrant.

— Ariel Durant

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

— Bryan Procter

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

— Voltaire

A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt.

— Edward Young

“Tyrant will eat whatever the fuck is available.”

— Anonymous

Man is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him.

— Lucretia Mott

A wicked tyrant is better than a wicked war.

— Martin Luther

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

— Elbert Hubbard

This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,Was once thought honest.

— William Shakespeare

“A cowardly tyrant only remembers his own greatness in imagination.”

— Duop Chak Wuol

Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism.

— John F. Kennedy

A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.

— Gilles Deleuze

If Obama's a tyrant, then he's pretty lame for a tyrant. How many tyrants do you know that really suffer because they…

— Jon Stewart

“We can't just drop everything, sir!" "Mister Lipwig. Is there something in the word 'tyrant' you do not understand?”

— Terry Pratchett

“The heart was a tyrant, like a child demanding ice cream instead of broccoli and throwing a fit to get its way.”

— Robert Boswell

I'm a tyrant that you should trust, and you should let me run your life, because I do know what is best…

— Vermin Supreme

In the States, I learned to fight for every idea. Sometimes, a director has to be a tyrant to keep the quality.

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

If you dethrone sincerity or earnestness with irony, eventually you get, like, an equal tyrant, do you know what I mean?

— Matty Healy

“[It is a] happy truth that man is capable of self-government, and only rendered otherwise by the moral degradation designedly superinduced on…

— Thomas Jefferson

But if one wishes to be absolute master of all, to obtain the entire inheritance, and to exclude his brothers from even…

— Gregory of Nyssa

“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

In 1979, Iranians carried out an illegitimate act: They overthrew a tyrant that the United States had imposed and supported, and moved…

— Noam Chomsky

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

“To have reservations is to show true leadership. To have certainty without question, to lead people to battle with no qualms, or…

— Laura Kreitzer

Of course for some Putin is a tyrant and dictator. Others consider him Russia's savior. But I'm in a difficult position. Putin…

— Ksenia Sobchak

In a despotic government, the only principle by which the tyrant who is to move the whole machine means to regulate and…

— Samuel Williams

“Initially, the God of the Old Testament might seem overwhelming and domineering to you, or tyrannical, or perhaps even evil, which is…

— Criss Jami

“Can we believe that the real God, if there is one, ever ordered a man to be killed simply for making hair…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

“The Biblical writers not only had no knowledge of these things, but they had a perverted concept of life and the universe.…

— Joseph Lewis

“Being an absolute ruler today was not as simple as people thought. At least, it was not simple if your ambitions included…

— Terry Pratchett

“What’s Ephebe like?” said Ptraci. “I’ve never been there. Apparently it’s ruled by a Tyrant.” “I hope we don’t meet him, then”…

— Terry Pratchett

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

“He is tall, lean, violent. This place is his home. It is his playground. The children his playthings till they get their…

— Pierce Brown

“That figure stood for a long time wholly in the light; this arose from a certain legendary dimness evolved by the majority…

— Victor Hugo