Quotes of: Tyrant Keyword

Small tyrants, threatened by big, sincerely believe they love liberty.

W.H. Auden

Why independence, if the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow?

El Filibusterismo

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

May the Lord destroy all the tyrants of the church. Amen.

Michael Servetus

The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a government; it is only a natural right to overturn a government.

Lysander Spooner

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Frederick Douglass

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.

Emile M. Cioran

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Charles Caleb Colton

Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.

John Sterling

Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.

Christopher Hitchens

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

Abigail Adams

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

Voltaire

The moment sex ceases to be a servant it becomes a tyrant.

Saint Francis of Assisi

When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys.

Shooting an Elephant

A tyrant has uncommon moral compass.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Men do not become tyrants in order that they may not suffer cold.

Politics

Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.

Wuthering Heights

I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.

Oriana Fallaci

As things stand the "intellectuals" only come out to lick the bones left over by the tyrant.

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything.

John Polkinghorne