Tyrants Quotes

None but tyrants have any business to be afraid.

Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them.

The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.

Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress?

Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die.

Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.

Every one with this writ may be a tyrant in a legal manner, also may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.

O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu. [Fr., Amour! Amour! quand tu nous tiens On peut bien dire, Adieu, prudence.]

The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend He now dare trust.

Thou tyrant, tyrant Jealousy, Thou tyrant of the mind!

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

Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.

The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab.

What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear?

The idea of perfection can be a tyrant you should overthrow, to gain your freedom.

The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good.

I will not be governed by the tyranny of immediacy.

none can be Tyrants but Cowards.

But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant.

Just wage a total war against these tyrants; I think we will do very well and our children will sing great songs about us years from now.

The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.

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

To imitate the hatred and violence of tyrants and murderers is the best way to take their place.

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

In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own eyes.

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.

Dictators from the past, tyrants, were not unaware that it is easier to govern and enslave a nation of drinkers than that of abstainers.

There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly terrible to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a free press.

Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure.

Have you ever heard of a woman bloody dictator or tyrant? I think not. If there were more women in power, I think we would have more harmony, more engagement and less suffering and less conflict.

Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.

The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.

Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke.

The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.

Why should I trade one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away?

The government is a tyrant living by theft, and therefore has no business to engage in any business.

The method of rule of the tyrant and the oligarch is quite simply to clobber, coerce, or overawe all or most other groups in the interest of their own.

A spoiled saint, a Pharisee, an inquisitor, or a magician, makes better sport to Hell than a mere common tyrant or debauchee.

Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey.

John Paul II spoke to the commoner and to the king, to the tyrant and to the democrat in that same language of freedom.

Martyrs have been sincere. And so have tyrants. Wise men have been sincere. And so have fools.

I love something: and scarcely do I love it completely when the tyrant in me says: "I want that in sacrifice." This cruelty is in my entrails. Behold! I am evil.

Some have said we must not act until the threat is imminent. Since when have terrorists and tyrants announced their intentions, politely putting us on notice before they strike?

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.

Christianity is not a law of bondage; and if it respect the hand of God which sometimes raises up tyrants, it draws up where obedience degenerates into guilty cowardice.

It is lawful and hath been held so through all ages for any one who have the power to call to account a tyrant or wicked king, and after due conviction to depose and put him to death.

Tyranny Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem None rebels except subjects? The prince who Neglects or violates his trust is more A brigand than the robber-chief.

There's no tyrant like a brain.

Every rabbit-nation will find its tyrant! Oppressors are the destiny of coward and submissive nations!