Tyrants Quotes

No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other.

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 war

Moses lifting up his wand, and dividing the Red Sea, and Pharaoh in his chariot overwhelmed with the waters. This motto: "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."

There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein's regime is a serious danger, that he is a tyrant, and that his pursuit of lethal weapons of mass destruction cannot be tolerated. He must be disarmed.

I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

The ideal citizen of a tyrannical state is the man or woman who bows in silent obedience in exchange for the status of a well-cared-for herd animal. Thinking people become the tyrants' worst enemies.

Instead of trying to see things my way, I try to see things her [wife's] way, and if it honestly makes sense then I will submit to her instead of being a tyrant and a dictator.

Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis. He snatched the lightning from the sky and the sceptre from tyrants.

Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

God himself has no right to be a tyrant.

If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?

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

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

A magistrate is not a father; he must be just and severe. Only tyrants are fathers.

Neither Britain, a land fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets.

As William Penn put it: "Those people who are not governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." Remember... that those tyrants are often self-imposed roadblocks of your lower self at work.

Tyrants always condemn and seek to replace the market process with government coercion because tyrants do not trust that people behaving voluntarily will do what the tyrants think they should do.

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.

The object of any tyrant would be to overthrow or diminish trial by jury, for it is the lamp that shows that freedom lives.

The women's movement is filled with tyrants, just as men's political movements are equally filled.

The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.

Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less.

Tyrants are always assassinated too late. That is their great excuse.

Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake.

...the greatest tyrants over women are women.

The most effective means of preventing tyranny is to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more especially to give them knowledge of those facts.

But they don't use law-they use law for their interests. They don't go by law, international, federal, local-nothing! They go by whatever is expedient to protect the interests that are at stake.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

Sow seed--but let no tyrant reap; Find wealth--let no imposter heap; Weave robes--let not the idle wear; Forge arms--in your defence to bear.

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

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

Spineless politics do not change the mind of a tyrant.

The consent of the governed" is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well.

If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say: "Obey! Clench your teeth and obey!" And all good and evil shall be drowned in obedience to him.

All the cops are just workers for the one percent, and they don't even realize they're being exploited.

The tyrant is a child of pride.

My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.

Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.

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.

My dad was a tyrant. He used to physically beat the crap out of us.

A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.

Morality is stronger than tyrants.

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

Power is a dangerous thing. Be careful that you don't abuse it or let it make a tyrant of you.

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

A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a people who mean to be free.

The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor a tyrant staring him in the face, will shake in his convictions.

I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.

In the States, I learned to fight for every idea. Sometimes, a director has to be a tyrant to keep the quality.