Top 391 Tyrant Quotes & Sayings

What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear?

The tyrant is a child of pride.

When you fight a war against a tyrant, who do you kill? You kill the victims of the tyrant.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

A God who kept tinkering with the universe was absurd; a God who interfered with human freedom and creativity was a tyrant. If God is seen as a self in a world of his own, an ego that relates to a thought, a cause separate from its effect, he becomes a being, not Being itself. An omnipotent, all?knowing tyrant is not so different from earthly dictators who make everything and everybody mere cogs in the machine which they controlled. An atheism that rejects such a God is amply justified.

Hitler had a lot of Jews high up in the hierarchy of the Third Reich. Color does not necessarily denote quality, content or value. If a black is a tyrant, he is first and foremost a tyrant, then he incidentally is black. Bush is a tyrant and if he gathers around him black tyrants, they all have to be treated as they are being treated.

Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.

A Tyrant is most tyrant to himselfe.

There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.

The tyrant is nothing but a slave turned inside out.

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

A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Democracy was the right of the people to choose their own tyrant.

Every apathetic individual is a brick in a tyrant's throne.

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.

'Useful,' and 'necessity' was always 'the tyrant's plea'.

A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt.

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

"Magna Carta is the Law: Let the King look out." So it has always been with tyrants among our own people: when the King was tyrant, let him look out. And it has always been the same, and will be the same, whether the tyrant be the Barons, whether the tyrant be the Church, whether he be demagogue or dictator - let them look out.

God himself has no right to be a tyrant.

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

Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism.

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

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.

A man like me cannot live without a hobby-horse, a consuming passion - in Schiller's words a tyrant. I have found my tyrant, and in his service I know no limits. My tyrant is psychology. It has always been my distant, beckoning goal and now since I have hit upon the neuroses, it has come so much the nearer.

The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant, in cases of necessity, can no more be doubted, than to hang a robber, or kill a flea. But killing one tyrant only makes way for worse, unless the people have sense, spirit and honesty enough to establish and support a constitution guarded at all points against the tyranny of the one, the few, and the many.

My name is on the door, and I care very much about the design that gets put out. I'm sorry, but it has to be my way. You learn that by working for people like I. M. Pei. You think he isn't a design tyrant? Is Calvin Klein a tyrant? When it came to his dresses, he had to be.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

There is not land beneath the sun where there is an open Bible and a preached gospel, where a tyrant long can hold his place... Let the Bible be opened to be read by all men, and no tyrant can long rule in peace... The religion of Jesus makes men think, and to make men think is always dangerous to a despot's power.

There is no tyrant as merciless as pain.

A tyrant is the worst disease, and the cause of all others.

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Love is a tyrant, resisted.

I don't think I could be happy as an actor if there was a tyrant on the set.

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

The universal methodology of the tyrant is always incrementalism.

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

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

A popular license is indeed the many-headed tyrant.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

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

Man is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him.

Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch.

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

Today's rebel is tomorrow's tyrant.

Love reigns a very tyrant in my heart.

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

Obama is a tyrant the same way FDR was a tyrant. He has a view of presidential power that states: the government is in control of the country, and the president is in charge of the government. He's taken an imperial view of the presidency.

Opinion is, as it were, the queen of the world, but force is its tyrant.

Spineless politics do not change the mind of a tyrant.

Let us render the tyrant no aid.

There's no tyrant like a brain.

Against the persecution of a tyrant the godly have no remedy but prayer.

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.

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

Who can take Death's portrait? The tyrant never sat.

America is said to be the arena on which the battle of freedom is to be fought; but surely it cannot be freedom in a merely political sense that is meant. Even if we grant that the American has freed himself from a political tyrant, he is still the slave of an economical and moral tyrant. Now that the republic--the res- publica--has been settled, it is time to look after the res- privata,--the private state,--to see, as the Roman Senate charged its consuls, "ne quid res-PRIVATA detrimenti caperet," that the private state receive no detriment.

Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many.