Champion Quote by Plato

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

— 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

Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural…

— Edmund Burke

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

— Lucretia Mott

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

“A general rule is drawn which never or rarely fails: that he who is the cause of another becoming powerful is ruined; because that…

— W.K. Marriott

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

Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility…

— Marshall McLuhan

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

— Frederick Douglass

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

— Plato

A tyrant is most tyrant to himself

— George Herbert