Tyrant Quotes

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This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,Was once thought honest. — William Shakespeare
Tyranny seldom announces itself...In fact, a tyranny may exist without an individual tyrant. A whole government, even a democratically elected one, may be tyrannical. — Joseph Sobran
The object of any tyrant would be to overthrow or diminish trial by jury, for it is the lamp that shows that freedom lives. — Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin
[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power. — Walter Raleigh
Death is the tyrant of the imagination. — Bryan Procter
It was the hard work of our people, the freedom they enjoyed and their faith in God that built this country and made it the… — Ronald Reagan
With the indiscriminate nature of modern military technology (no such thing as a "smart bomb," it turns out) all wars are wars against civilians, and… — Howard Zinn
Love is a tyrant sparing none. — Pierre Corneille
No matter what the greatest tyrant in the world, the greatest terrorist in the world, George W. Bush says, we're here to tell you: Not… — Harry Belafonte
Hitler had a lot of Jews high up in the hierarchy of the Third Reich. Color does not necessarily denote quality, content or value. [If]… — Harry Belafonte
Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant. — Aldous Huxley
What kind of tyrant punishes everyone just to get back at the few he's mad at? I mean, besides Chris Christie. — Bill Maher
Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a… — Henry David Thoreau
At that moment, in the sunset on Watership Down, there was offered to General Woundwort the opportunity to show whether he was really the leader… — Richard Adams
But we know that freedom cannot be served by the devices of the tyrant. As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Shakespeare wrote great poetry and preposterous plays. Who really cares, for example, which petty tyrant rules Milan? Or who succeeds to the throne of Denmark?… — Edward Abbey
Technically, the city of Ankh-Morpork is a Tyranny, which is not always the same thing as a monarchy, and in fact even the post of… — Terry Pratchett
Time and again in this century, the political map of the world was transformed. And ineach instance a new world order came about through the… — George H. W. Bush
In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary. — Emile M. Cioran

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