Bears Quote by Epictetus

But if one wishes to be absolute master of all, to obtain the entire inheritance, and to exclude his brothers from even a third…

— Gregory of Nyssa

If only the gods would give me such strength as he has to take revenge on the suitors for their overbearing oppression. They force…

— Telemachos

Let tyrants fear, I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts…

— Elizabeth I

God himself has no right to be a tyrant.

— William Godwin

As William Penn put it: "Those people who are not governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." Remember... that those tyrants are often…

— Wayne Dyer

Would we not do well to have the pleasing of God as our motive rather than to try to elevate ourselves above our brother…

— Ezra Taft Benson

I would rather be my own tyrant than have someone else tyrannize me.

— Henry Flagler

Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one—so mortals hate him most of all…

— Homer

Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.

— Benjamin Franklin

He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.

— Alexander Pope

When we are in the elevated company of the One God, no bad company will influence us.

— Dr BK Satyanarayan

Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?

— Zebulon Pike