Tyrant Quotes

239 quotes by 193 authors

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within… — Thomas Jefferson
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. — Soren Kierkegaard
Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and… — Marshall McLuhan
For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their… — Barack Obama
Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or… — James Otis
Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything. — John Polkinghorne
More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators. — Dennis Prager
Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are… — Matthew Prior
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside,… — Bertrand Russell
The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice. — Voltaire
O serpent heart hid with a flowering face! Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening… — William Shakespeare
What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act? That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you,… — Marquis de Sade
Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a… — Winston Churchill
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of… — Mahatma Gandhi
Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of… — Walter Scott
A God who kept tinkering with the universe was absurd; a God who interfered with human freedom and creativity was a tyrant. If God is… — Karen Armstrong
A hurt body and mind aren't just like a dictatorship; they are a dictatorship. There is no tyrant as merciless as pain, no despot so… — Stephen King
When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys — George Orwell
But you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that one thing you've never been able to kill, no matter how hard you try. I… — Brandon Sanderson

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