Behinds Quote by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men…

— Aristotle

Tyrants forego all respect for humanity in proportion as they are sunk beneath it. Taught to believe themselves of a different species, they really…

— William Hazlitt

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

— George Santayana

Tyrants are but the spawn of Ignorance, Begotten by the slaves they trample on.

— James Russell Lowell

Unlike monarchs, who pass power to their heirs at the moment of death to ensure the survival of the regime, tyrants must simply survive…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

As one gains personal power, the terrors of the tyrant begin to lessen...

— Senoraroy

A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

— Plato

From one tyrant to another. That is the world we know, now

— Veronica Roth

In the long run even the most despotic governments with all their brutality and cruelty are no match for ideas. Eventually the ideology that…

— Ludwig von Mises

Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.

— Walter Savage Landor

“The freest people, like the freest man, is always in danger of re-lapsing into servitude. Wars are almost always fatal to Republics. They create…

— Albert Pike

Few tyrants go down to the infernal regions by a natural death.

— Juvenal