Top 311 Tyrants Quotes & Sayings

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

Morality is stronger than tyrants.

There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.

My task is not to tyrannize but to destroy tyrants.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. In order to flourish, the tree of Liberty needs the blood of patriots and tyrants.

I am a foe to tyrants, and my country's friend.

The world has paid a heavy price for the lack of democracy in most of the Middle East. Operation Ajax [CIA code for the August 1953 coup] taught tyrants and aspiring tyrants there that the world's most powerful governments were willing to tolerate limitless oppression as long as oppressive regimes were friendly to the West and to Western oil companies. That helped tilt the political balance in a vast region away from freedom and toward dictatorship.

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Nothing is so opportune for tyrants as a people tired of its liberty.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

The pro-gun advocates point to the 2nd amendment of America's Constitution, citing Americans' right to bear arms as a protection against tyrants. Pro-Bitcoin advocates want protection against tyrants, too. The difference is how these two groups define tyranny.

May the Lord destroy all the tyrants of the church. Amen.

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

It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains.

Let tyrants shake their iron rod.

The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.

Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.

Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs.

Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages.

So long as our Corps fields such Marines, America has nothing to fear from tyrants, be they Fascists, Communists or Tyrants with Medieval Ideology. For we serve in a Corps with no institutional confusion about our purpose: To fight! To fight well!

If women were in charge of everything, there would be women tyrants. If black people were in charge, there would be black tyrants. If Hispanics were in charge, then Hispanic tyrants.

Voldemort himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back!

Twixt kings and tyrants there's this difference known; Kings seek their subjects' good: tyrants their own.

Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.

Not as tyrants have we come, but as liberators.

Dreams can be relentless tyrants.

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

Socialism was made to order for tyrants.

Flight is lawful, when one flies from tyrants.

Tyrants are but the spawn of Ignorance, Begotten by the slaves they trample on.

All men would be tyrants if they could.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.

The big tyrants never face justice.

One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.

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

Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

Through talk, we tamed kings, restrained tyrants, averted revolution

The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants.

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.

Since bad men find the rule of kings no less burdensome than that of tyrants, the recognition of the right of private citizens to kill tyrants involves rather more chance of losing a king than of being relieved of a tyrant.

Oh you Muslims! You have slept for a long time, long enough for the tyrants to take control over you. You accepted to live as slaves and submitted to tyrants. Now the time has come to revolt and destroy the shackle of slavery.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

Non-cooperation with tyrants is a duty.

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants.

None but tyrants have any business to be afraid.

That cruelest of tyrants - public opinion.

Why independence? If the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow.

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.

none can be Tyrants but Cowards.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.