Tyrants Quotes

Self-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to themselves, and tyrants to all the world besides.

To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.

We take a fancy to something: and scarcely have we thoroughly taken a fancy to it when that tyrant in us calls out: "Give me thatin sacrifice"--and we give it.

A Tyrant is most tyrant to himselfe.

That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant, practiced in acts of despotism and cruelty.

There are two kinds of rebellion. The first is one in which the slave demands something that the tyrant has got. The second is one in which he demands something that the tyrant has not got.

It seems to be almost inevitable that the man who accepts a subordinate economic position in the Family degenerates into a loafer and a tyrant.

Insane!... Ask the tyrant who is his most dangerous foe, the sane man or the insane?

Adding an overarching tier of tyrants - the EU - to European governments has benefited Europeans as a second hangman enhances the health of a condemned man.

Flight is lawful, when one flies from tyrants.

If Obama's a tyrant, then he's pretty lame for a tyrant. How many tyrants do you know that really suffer because they can't get cloture? Very few.

Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants.

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

Few tyrants go down to the infernal regions by a natural death.

Power lies in reason, resolution, and truth. No matter how long the tyrant endures, he will be the loser at the end.

Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity.

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

What want these outlaws conquerors should have but history's purchased page to call them great?

When human statecraft attaches a chain to the feet of a free man, whom it makes a slave in contempt of nature and citizenship, eternal justice rivets the other end about the tyrant's neck.

Islam has always been a force that dispels tyrants and tyranny, opression and exploitaion. Islam has always been a force that militates for justice.

Non-cooperation with tyrants is a duty.

Throughout the history of mankind there have been murderers and tyrants; and while it may seem momentarily that they have the upper hand, they have always fallen. Always.

This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.

Speak to me, Jacob, do not play the tyrant. Speak to me.

The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of the nation only-not from its privileged classes.

By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home."

A wicked tyrant is better than a wicked war.

There's a big difference between a decisive manager and a tyrant.

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!

Muse is a tyrant. It gets you out of bed in the twilight of the morning and forces you to create something!

Wherever you see a wall, demolish it to broaden the horizons of the world! Wherever you see a tyrant, take him down to increase the light of the world!

I'm many things: I'm a convicted rapist, I'm a hell-raiser, I'm a father, a loving father. I'm a semi-good husband...I'm pretty much a tyrant-titan.

A popular license is indeed the many-headed tyrant.

Whoever declares a child to be "delicate" thereby crowns and anoints a tyrant.

The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.

But whether the resistance against government tyrants is non-violent or physically violent, the effort to overthrow state oppression qualifies as true patriotism.

Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants.

He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns a nation.

Heap up great wealth in your house, if you wish, and live as a tyrant, but, if the enjoyment of these things be lacking, I would not buy the rest for the shadow of smoke as against happiness.

There is no tyrant as merciless as pain.

A headline last year, after the death of Saddam Hussein, read: 'Tyrant is hanged'. My auntie looked at the newspaper and sobbed, 'Who's going to present "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?"'

Truth ever lovely - since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man.

Love reigns a very tyrant in my heart.

There can be no freedom for Africa without justice; and no justice without declaring war on Africa's poverty, disease and famine with as much vehemence as we remove the tyrant and the terrorist.

From one tyrant to another. That is the world we know, now

Without some form of censorship, propaganda in the strict sense of the word is impossible. In order to conduct propaganda there must be some barrier between the public and the event.

Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.

Hold firm to your vision but don't be a tyrant on set.

Let tyrants shake their iron rod.

The hand of Vengeance found the Bed To which the Purple Tyrant fled The iron hand crush'd the tyrant's head And became Tyrant in his stead.