“No tyrant could thrive where every subject said no. The tyrant thrives when the first fucking fool salutes.” — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has… — John Le Carre Copy Share Image
I will never, for the future, paint the portrait of a tyrant until his head lies before me on the scaffold. — Jacques-Louis David Copy Share Image
Colonel Qaddafi's tyranny was absolutist, monarchical, and personal. The problem with such dictatorships is that as long as the tyrant lives, he… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
“Tradition is the crown of the tyrant. I eye all the Golds in their badges and Sigils and standards, all worn to… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“An utter and complete tyrant, her face only melted at Mass, a ritual she clearly loved.” — Bonnie Greer Copy Share Image
A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of… — Thomas Jefferson 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
“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
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
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
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
So my character on 'Tyrant' is a chap called Barry Al Fayeed, and he is the second son of a fictional Middle… — Adam Rayner 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
“there were few worse criminals on any world than the engineer who blithely and knowingly hands over to a tyrant the tools… — David Brin Copy Share Image
A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Behind every Tyrant I see a quiet and wonderful person being suppressed by fear and distrust. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
