Tyrants Quotes · Page 12

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.

— Socrates

There's a big difference between a decisive manager and a tyrant.

— Mary Kay Ash

“He created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do!”

— J.K. Rowling

A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.

— Crystal Eastman

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

— William Penn

Every apathetic individual is a brick in a tyrant's throne.

— Philip Slater

I will never, for the future, paint the portrait of a tyrant until his head lies before me on the scaffold.

— Jacques-Louis David

Remember that it is not by a tyrant's words, but only by his deeds that we can know him.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

E? loquence quipersuade par douceur, non par empire, en tyran, non en roi. Eloquence should persuade gently, not by force or like…

— Blaise Pascal

This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For Freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful…

— John Quincy Adams

So the villains aren't gay-hating Islamists or women killing tyrants, but actually us: an American Congress bent on the apocalypse. Don't we…

— Greg Gutfeld

If there is a God who will damn his children forever, I would rather go to hell than to go to heaven…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the effect of such [gun control] laws is to place the individual at…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“Let the warning of the tyrants of the past be recognized for it shall be the same one ringing out when the…

— Sai Marie Johnson

One must never compromise with tyrants. One can only strike at kings through the head. Nothing can be expected from European kings…

— Georges Danton

Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is,…

— Edmund Burke

What constitutes a good manager in this field? He must be knowledgeable in the art with which he is concerned, an impresario,…

— John D. Rockefeller

The slaves of today will become the tyrants of tomorrow--the proletariat overthrows the hegemon to become the hegemon itself, only to be…

— Miguel Syjuco

Wretched men cringe before tyrants who have no power, the victims of their trivial hopes and fears. They do not realise that…

— Boethius

“Their successors, instead of ruling for the good of their subjects, tyrannize for their own; and they met with the fate of…

— Isocrates

Fashion is a tyrant from which nothing frees us. We must suit ourselves to its fantastic tastes. But being compelled to live…

— Blaise Pascal

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit…

— Frederick Douglass

I will be harsh and stern against the aggressor, but I will be a pillar of strength for the weak.I will not…

— Umar

Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a…

— Peter DeFazio

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

— Voltaire

The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good.

— Luc de Clapiers

“Small tyrants, threatened by big, sincerely believe they love liberty.”

— W.H. Auden

...great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant...

— Alexander Hamilton

Modern tyrants are terror managers. Do not allow your shock to be turned against your freedom.

— Timothy D. Snyder

The power of the state is measured by the power that men surrender to it.

— Felix Morley

All the cops are just workers for the one percent, and they don't even realize they're being exploited.

— Ray Lewis

Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.

— Voltaire

“tyrants always set about shaping history after their liking.”

— Douglas Bond

“People cheer on tyrants for fear of becoming targets.”

— Andrew Sturm

'Useful,' and 'necessity' was always 'the tyrant's plea'.

— C. S. Lewis

Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.

— Ben Jonson

One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.

— Marquis de Sade

May the Lord destroy all the tyrants of the church. Amen.

— Michael Servetus

“Tyrants have only one problem in life. They simply just wanna rule everything.”

— Toba Beta