Quotes of: Tyrant Keyword

Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers.

Richard Perle

Success makes tyrants of most of the humankind; making us forget basic courtesy, and being kind.

Fakeer Ishavardas

A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover -- but will sooner or later find a tyrant.

George Gordon Byron

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

John Adams

Pretend you are a foolish to the tyrant – because if he realizes you are a genius, he might use you to harm others.

A Gentlemen

My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.

June Jordan

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

William Pitt the Younger

You cannot mend the chromosome, quell the earthquake, or stanch the flood. You cannot atone for the dead tyrants’ murders and you alone cannot stop living tyrants. As Martin Buber saw it, the world of ordinary days “affords” us that precise ass...

For the Time Being

Cursed greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused. -- Virgil

The Silver Crescent

A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste

One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich

The heart was a tyrant, like a child demanding ice cream instead of broccoli and throwing a fit to get its way.

Tumbledown

Ignorance is the supreme oppressor and tyrant.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.

Philip K. Dick

A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant.

Lord Byron

Anywhere in the world if you see a president holding his chair tightly, that man is either a thief or a tyrant, and even worse than this, he is both!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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

Marshall McLuhan

In 1979, Iranians carried out an illegitimate act: They overthrew a tyrant that the United States had imposed and supported, and moved on an independent path, not following U.S. orders.

Noam Chomsky

A great nation like the United States has many and varied interests, and we need both to do business with tyrants and to engage constantly in multilateral diplomacy.

Elliott Abrams

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

Lord Byron

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

Plato