Comfort Quote by Marshall McLuhan

A man like me cannot live without a hobby-horse, a consuming passion - in Schiller's words a tyrant. I have found my tyrant, and…

— Sigmund Freud

The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the root from…

— Plato

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

It has always happened that tyrants, in order to strengthen their power, have made every effort to train their people not only in obedience…

— Etienne de La Boetie

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall…

— Lord Byron

“Tyrants are willing to commit to anything…including mass murder to maintain their domination over every human being alive. They abuse the lives of the…

— R.G. Risch

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.

— Emily Bronte

“But when one does not complain, and when one wants to master oneself with a tyrant’s grip — one’s faculties rise in revolt —…

— Charlotte Brontë

Man is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him.

— Lucretia Mott

The tyrant is nothing but a slave turned inside out.

— Herbert Spencer

“Laissez faire! Let things alone! have said the judges of the camp. Careers are open; and although the field is covered with corpses, although…

— Élisée Reclus

A tyrant is most tyrant to himself

— George Herbert