The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
...great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant... — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“When has any man ever been content with what he has? When has any tyrant said to himself, 'This is enough'?” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on… — Georges Clemenceau Copy Share Image
Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Power lies in reason, resolution, and truth. No matter how long the tyrant endures, he will be the loser at the end. — Khalil Copy Share Image
What kind of tyrant punishes everyone just to get back at the few he's mad at? I mean, besides Chris Christie. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“for PEOPLE to rule themselves in a REPUBLIC , they must have virtue;for a TYRANT to rule in a TYRANNY ,he must… — William J Federer Copy Share Image
The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience. — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
A man like me cannot live without a hobby-horse, a consuming passion - in Schiller's words a tyrant. I have found my… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Art is a tyrant. It demands heart, brain, soul, body. The entireness of the votary. Nothing less will win its highest favor.… — Rosa Bonheur Copy Share Image
“In many cities, tyrants were able to seize power by offering to protect the poorer citizens against the rich or vice versa.… — Alan Ryan 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
There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there are not… — Euripides Copy Share Image
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them, then he… — Plato Copy Share Image
“That God should play the tyrant over man is a dismal story of unrelieved oppression; that man should play the tyrant over… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed… — Richard Jefferies Copy Share Image
I don't think I could be happy as an actor if there was a tyrant on the set. — David Warner Copy Share Image
“The smart tyrant flatters the people with words,while with deeds he destroys them.” — Anatoli Rybakov Copy Share Image
“Because if you don't know how to manage time, time can rule you like a tyrant.” — Frank Partnoy Copy Share Image
I would rather be my own tyrant than have someone else tyrannize me. — Henry Flagler Copy Share Image
A dictator keeps control and leads. A tyrant is someone selfish who destroys. — Alessandra Mussolini Copy Share Image
The tyrant claims freedom to kill freedom, and yet keep it for himself. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
