Quotes of: Tyrant Keyword

Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.

Demosthenes

Laughter is an anarchic blasphemy. Tyrants are wise to fear it.

David Mitchell

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

Barbara Tuchman

Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.

Daniel Defoe

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Only faith and restraint against the tyrant damns the saint.

Life

Poets and intellectuals...are the ones the tyrants go after first.

Life

The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

Voltaire

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

The worst kind of tyrant is one that is righteously wrong

rassool jibraeel snyman

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!

Samuel Adams

One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.

Marquis de Sade

My father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little.

Honeysuckle Weeks

Love rules the world. Like a tyrant. 

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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

Mahatma Gandhi

People cheer on tyrants for fear of becoming targets.

The Kirkwood Project

I don't think I could be happy as an actor if there was a tyrant on the set.

David Warner

In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.

Emile M. Cioran

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

George Santayana

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

Aeschylus

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

Albert Camus