Quotes of: Tyrant Keyword

It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice.

Henry A. Wallace

More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.

Dennis Prager

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

Edmund Burke

Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.

Bill Richardson

You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff.

Richard Pryor

...and I sometimes think that the fading out of the individual personality is what one should desire, not the status of a hero—a sort of effacement of oneself from history. The entire record of the human race has been falsified, it has been made up...

A Place of Greater Safety

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

Plato

The 'Axis of Evil' was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well.

Michael Ledeen

I loved Jack Ford. I got him in his later days, and he was a total tyrant and a total autocrat and an Irish drunk. But I had a great time.

Richard Widmark

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.

William Ralph Inge

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

William Lloyd Garrison

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

Aristotle

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Thomas Jefferson

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

William Pitt the Younger

Lord X was a tyrant, not a revolutionary. He wanted to take over the system, not change it.

Cetaganda

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

The Journals of Kierkegaard

Love rules the world. Like a tyrant.

Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

I shall never cease to marvel at the way we beg for love and tyranny.

Lovers and Tyrants

Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes.

Paul Wolfowitz

The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrant. It is its natural manure.

Thomas Jefferson

Nostalgia for dead tyrants and the longing for heroes are unhealthy, and they can result in the deification of a Saddam as easily as a Havel or Mandela.

Rory Stewart