Tyrants Quotes

520 Tyrants quotes by 357 unique authors

The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when… — Bertolt Brecht
Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey. — C.S. Lewis
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 Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free. — Herman Melville
This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must… — Frederick Douglass
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
See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to… — George W. Bush
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 really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of… — Aldous Huxley
Voldemort himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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
Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens. They who can treat… — Baruch Spinoza
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
The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying organized… — Samuel P. Huntington
When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys — George Orwell
Denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good. — Philip Gourevitch
Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects. — Clarence Darrow
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
There's no tyrant like a brain. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Mew," the kitten retorted, locking gazes with him. It had the expression common to all kittens, that of a tyrant in the becoming. 'I was… — Scott Lynch
By Oppression's woes and pains! By your sons in servile chains! We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be free! Lay the proud… — Robert Burns
Truth ever lovely - since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man. — Thomas Campbell
Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system. — Dorothy Day
That's what tyrants do, I guess. They make you covet their attention; they make you confuse attention for mercy. — Gary Shteyngart
Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less. — Tim Ferriss

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