Tyrant Quotes

239 quotes by 193 authors

Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations.Imagine the brain, that… — Diane Ackerman
Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer. — Ben Jonson
Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant. — Edward Gibbon
Where once a tyrant had to wish that his subjects had but one common neck that he might strangle them all at once, all he… — Richard Mitchell
The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a… — Joseph Conrad
I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who… — H. L. Mencken
Try this thought experiment. Pretend you're a tyrant. Among your many liberty-destroying objectives are extermination of blacks, Jews and Catholics. Which would you prefer, a… — Walter E. Williams
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
When your little child tells a lie, do not rush at him as though the world were about to go into bankruptcy. Be honest with… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The tyrant claims freedom to kill freedom, and yet keep it for himself. — Rabindranath Tagore
I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful… — Cato the Younger
Unanimity of opinion may be fitting for a church, for the frightened or greedy victims of some (ancient, or modern) myth, or for the weak… — Paul Feyerabend
To say that subjects in general are not proper judges (of the law) when their governors oppress them and play the tyrant, and when they… — Jonathan Mayhew
Allah guards the justice loving government, even if it is the government of non-Muslims, and destroys the tyrant government, even if it is the government… — Ibn Taymiyyah
Of the tyrant, spies and informers are the principal instruments. War is his favorite occupation, for the sake of engrossing the attention of the people,… — Aristotle
Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his. — William Lloyd Garrison
Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! — Thomas Paine
Democracies have been, and governments called, free; but the spirit of independence and the consciousness of unalienable rights, were never before transfused into the minds… — Sarah Josepha Hale
Democracy was the right of the people to choose their own tyrant. — James Madison

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