Tyrants Quotes

520 Tyrants quotes by 357 unique authors

A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures,… — Baroness Orczy
Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be… — Octavia Butler
A dagger is the noble weapon of Brutus. Everyone understands that tyrants fall to daggers. A bomb is a sordid modern device with many complex… — Bruce Sterling
Everything necessary to understand my grandfather lies between two stories: the story of the tiger’s wife, and the story of the deathless man. These stories… — Tea Obreht
...the greatest tyrants over women are women. — William Makepeace Thackeray
A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his… — Henry David Thoreau
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. — Henry David Thoreau
They've got something they do it with, I think it's called a mocracy, and it means everyone in the whole country can say who the… — Terry Pratchett
The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me And I cannot, cannot go. The giant… — Emily Bronte
Speak to me, Jacob, do not play the tyrant. Speak to me. — Maria McCann
When the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys.He becomes a sort of hollow,posing dummy,the conventional figure of a sahib.For… — George Orwell
I consider myself to be a man of principle. But, what man does not? Even the cutthroat, I have noticed, considers his actions "moral" after… — Brandon Sanderson
What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant. — C.S. Lewis
It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains. — Patrick Henry
Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Lacy had warned me about Drew the first day of school. Apparently the two of them had gone to some summer camp together––blah, blah, I… — Rick Riordan
The very freedom which the sinner supposedly exercises in his self-indulgence is only another proof that he is ruled by the tyrant. — Fulton J. Sheen
I never wanted to be feared. If I regret one thing, it is the fear I have caused. Fear is the tool of tyrants. Unfortunately,… — Brandon Sanderson
When you fight a war against a tyrant, who do you kill? You kill the victims of the tyrant. — Howard Zinn
A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it. — Gilles Deleuze
The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And I cannot, cannot go. — Emily Bronte
People who cannot restrain their own baser instincts, who cannot treat one another with civility, are not capable of self-government... without virtue, a society can… — Charles Colson
It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they… — Aristotle
The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only… — Laura Hillenbrand

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