Tyrants Quotes

520 Tyrants quotes by 357 unique authors

Whence all this passion towards conformity anyway? Diversity is the word. Let man keep his many parts and you will have no tyrant states. Why,… — Ralph Ellison
I killed you once", the Lord Ruler said, turning back to Kelsier. "You tried", Kelsier replied, his voice loud and firm, carrying across the square.… — Brandon Sanderson
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God. — Stendhal
The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind. The tyrants continue to reign because the… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The most dangerous kind of man is not the one who spent his youth shoving others around. That kind of man gets lazy, and is… — Brandon Sanderson
Do you want to know something about tyrants? When faced with death, they weep and they beg just like the rest of us. — Melina Marchetta
From one tyrant to another. That is the world we know, now — Veronica Roth
Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake. — Edgar Wallace
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants.… — Frederick Douglass
Tyrants are always assassinated too late. That is their great excuse. — Emile M. Cioran
History has a long-range perspective. It ultimately passes stern judgment on tyrants and vindicates those who fought, suffered, were imprisoned, and died for human freedom,… — Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Through talk, we tamed kings, restrained tyrants, averted revolution — Tony Benn
Only a humorless tyrant could want a perpetual chanting of praises that, one has no choice but to assume, would be the innate virtues and… — Christopher Hitchens
The Jehovah of the Jews is a suspicious tyrant, who breathes nothing but blood, murder, and carnage, and who demands that they should nourish him… — Baron d'Holbach
I am a foe to tyrants, and my country's friend. — William Shakespeare
Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted… — Patrick Henry
Moses lifting up his wand, and dividing the Red Sea, and Pharaoh in his chariot overwhelmed with the waters. This motto: "Rebellion to tyrants is… — Benjamin Franklin
Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own… — Marquis de Sade
You can cite a hundred references to show that the biblical God is a bloodthirsty tyrant, but if they can dig up two or three… — Dan Barker
Love is a tyrant, resisted. — John Ford
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. — Oliver Goldsmith
Nostalgia for dead tyrants and the longing for heroes are unhealthy, and they can result in the deification of a Saddam as easily as a… — Rory Stewart
The greatest bulwark against an overreaching government, as tyrants know, is a religious population. That is because religious people form communities of interest adverse to… — Ben Shapiro
A great nation like the United States has many and varied interests, and we need both to do business with tyrants and to engage constantly… — Elliott Abrams
We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on fire. A line… — Nancy Gibbs

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