Tyrant Quotes

239 quotes by 193 authors

We have to bring stability to Iraq, otherwise we will be faced with a future dilemma of sending our loved ones into harms way to… — Jay Rockefeller
Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother. — Frederick Douglass
All men are equal and free: society by nature, and destination, is therefore autonomous and ungovernable. If the sphere of activity of each citizen is… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Why should I trade one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away? — Benjamin Martin
The monster has escaped Elba!" "The tyrant has landed at Cannes!" "Bonaparte meets the troops." "Napoleon approaches Paris." "His Imperial Majesty has entered the capital. — David Frum
I would rather be my own tyrant than have someone else tyrannize me. — Henry Flagler
Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of… — Thomas Gray
When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I turn liberal, they… — Emile Zola
Liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother. — Camille Paglia
The tyrant is nothing but a slave turned inside out. — Herbert Spencer
Compassion and shame come over one who considers how precarious is the origin of the proudest of living beings: often the smell of a lately… — Pliny the Elder
Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when… — Victor Hugo
If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty,… — Joseph Brodsky
It's important to remember that Bush Derangement Syndrome on the left - comparing him to Hitler, calling him a terrorist and a tyrant - preceded… — John Avlon
Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad. — William Rounseville Alger
It would seem to me that If this physical life, of which we are now aware, does indeed comprise the entirety of human experience, then… — Derek R. Audette
The universal methodology of the tyrant is always incrementalism. — Derek R. Audette
There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there are not laws in common,… — Euripides
I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact. — Twyla Tharp
The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend He now dare trust. — Joanna Baillie

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