Tyrant Quote by Pierce Brown

“And yet, by ingenious contrivance, this gilded minority, instead of being in the tail of the procession where it belonged, was marching head up…

— Mark Twain

“What is the point of a crown without a legacy?”

— Tessa Gratton

“We have to hand it to the little tyrants who devise the picturesque abuses of authority that give the moral populace the clear examples…

— John Popielaski

“We will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying to them: "You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this…

— William Jennings Bryan

“Before you wear a crown of gold, life sometimes makes you wear a crown of thorns.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“I regard a good budget as among the noblest monuments of virtue.”

— Amity Shlaes

Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises. 'Tis the vulgar great who come dizened with gold and jewels.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I think it came from being a ruling class, from never being able to show weakness to the people they have conquered - to…

— Peter Cunningham

“How terrible it must be to be a member of the noble class. So many rules. Such restraint. You must feel like a caged…

— Fiona Paul

“Not only the wisdom of centuries—also their madness breaketh out in us. Dangerous is it to be an heir.”

— Nietzsche

“frequent phenomenon in history: the republic whose ruler has every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name. It therefore enjoyed the usual despotism…

— Isaac Asimov

“I have known many of those pretended champions for liberty in my time, yet do I not remember one that was not in his…

— Oliver Goldsmith