Leadership Quote by Plato

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some…

— Plato

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

— Plato

The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls every movement…

— Aristotle

A dictator keeps control and leads. A tyrant is someone selfish who destroys.

— Alessandra Mussolini

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 tyrant is most tyrant to himself

— George Herbert

A Tyrant is most tyrant to himselfe.

— George Herbert

For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

— Golda Meir

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

“Can tyrants but by tyrants conquered be”

— George Gordon Byron

Strong leaders are harassed, imprisoned or assassinated, which are great deterrents if you want to silence a firebrand and suppress a revolt.

— Gary Yourofsky