Tyrant Quotes

239 quotes by 193 authors

Whence all this passion towards conformity anyway? Diversity is the word. Let man keep his many parts and you will have no tyrant states. Why,… — Ralph Ellison
I killed you once", the Lord Ruler said, turning back to Kelsier. "You tried", Kelsier replied, his voice loud and firm, carrying across the square.… — Brandon Sanderson
The most dangerous kind of man is not the one who spent his youth shoving others around. That kind of man gets lazy, and is… — Brandon Sanderson
From one tyrant to another. That is the world we know, now — Veronica Roth
Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake. — Edgar Wallace
Only a humorless tyrant could want a perpetual chanting of praises that, one has no choice but to assume, would be the innate virtues and… — Christopher Hitchens
The Jehovah of the Jews is a suspicious tyrant, who breathes nothing but blood, murder, and carnage, and who demands that they should nourish him… — Baron d'Holbach
You can cite a hundred references to show that the biblical God is a bloodthirsty tyrant, but if they can dig up two or three… — Dan Barker
Love is a tyrant, resisted. — John Ford
The Georges were fair; they left all to the Government; but Anne was very bad and a tyrant. She tyrannised over the Irish. She died… — Lady Gregory
My father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little. — Honeysuckle Weeks
No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed to serve the… — Richard Jefferies
Sometimes I think I should have chosen a line of work where it was just me alone in the room, with the sun coming in,… — Charlie Trotter
In 1979, Iranians carried out an illegitimate act: They overthrew a tyrant that the United States had imposed and supported, and moved on an independent… — Noam Chomsky
Because a man is placed in charge of a club does not make it necessary for him to be a taskmaster or a tyrant. In… — Joe Tinker
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always… — Plato
This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. — Plato
A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant. — Lord Byron
Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused — Virgil
Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion - what a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates… — Henry David Thoreau

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