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Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant ... must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves. — Aesop

Unmasking the intentions of a Satanic character: He cannot be both counselor and tyrant. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Death is the ultimate weapon of the tyrant; resurrection does not make a covenant with death, it overthrows it. — N. T. Wright

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. — Thomas Jefferson

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

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

Honesty does not make a man less of a tyrant. — Brandon Sanderson

God himself has no right to be a tyrant. — William Godwin

Time is a tyrant, words our last and only weapons. — Lyndsay Faye

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. — John Le Carre

Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort. — Marshall McLuhan

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

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer. — Ben Jonson

I am happy today. I am a tyrant. — Anais Nin

the mind is a tyrant — Deb Caletti

Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure. — Ambrose Bierce

The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave. — William Hazlitt

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person. — William Ralph Inge

Any excuse will serve a tyrant — Aesop

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

The tyrant is nothing but a slave turned inside out. — Herbert Spencer

The worst kind of tyrant was the one who once had been the victim. — John A. Williams

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

What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear? — Juvenal

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

A tyrant does not remain in the world; But the curse on him abides forever! — Bill Vaughan

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

The only difference between a futile madman and an effective tyrant is power and will. — Sheri S. Tepper

A pen in my hand, a glaring in my mind,
A tyrant could not subdue me. — Nida Mahmoed

A popular license is indeed the many-headed tyrant. — Philip Sidney

There's no tyrant like a brain. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

The tyrant is a child of pride. — Sophocles

The slave is always a tyrant, if he can get a chance to be one. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

If there is a God who will damn his children forever, I would rather go to hell than to go to heaven and keep the society of such an infamous tyrant. — Robert Green Ingersoll

I will have thee, as our rarer monsters are, painted upon a pole,and underwrit: Here you may see the tyrant, Macbeth — William Shakespeare

Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

But if you remove a tyrant in anything other than an open and visible way, another tyrant soon stands up to replace him. — Juliet Marillier

A tyrant remains a tyrant no matter how benevolently he may philosophize and smile, — David I. Kertzer

For how can a tyrant rule the free and the proud, but for a tyranny in their own freedom and a shame in their own pride? — Kahlil Gibran

Love is a tyrant, resisted. — John Ford

Lord X was a tyrant, not a revolutionary. He wanted to take over the system, not change it. — Lois McMaster Bujold

A strict belief in fate is the worst of slavery, imposing upon our necks an everlasting lord and tyrant, whom we are to stand in awe of night and day. — Epicurus

I clearly understand, first, that the real human being is a poet and, second, that [the tyrant] is the incarnate negation of a poet. — Vladimir Nabokov

What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant. — C.S. Lewis

Freedom from a tyrant is easy, but freedom from societal conformity is difficult. — Debasish Mridha

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

The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny. — Aesop

A tyrant can make anything seem to be 'the will of the people. — Claudia Gray

Writing a book is an adventure: it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant. — Winston S. Churchill

There were few worse criminals on any world than the engineer who blithely and knowingly hands over to a tyrant the tools of oppression. — David Brin

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

Hold firm to your vision but don't be a tyrant on set, — Werner Herzog

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! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you cannot tell me another way, do not brand me a tyrant. — David Gaider

She just liked the name, because, for a five-foot-tall girl, pygmy tyrant sounded like a career. All — Maggie Stiefvater

The planet's tyrant, dotard Death, had held his gray mirror before them for a moment and shown them the image of things to come. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Better to live under one tyrant a thousand miles away, than a thousand tyrants one mile away. — Daniel Bliss

In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary. — Emile M. Cioran

A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance. — Muriel Spark

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

A Tyrant is most tyrant to himselfe. — George Herbert

A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it. — Gilles Deleuze

This and no other is the root from
which a tyrant springs; when he
first appears he is a protector. — Plato

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

Democracy is a kingless regime infested by many kings who are sometimes more exclusive, tyrannical and destructive than one, even if he be a tyrant. — Benito Mussolini

The heart was a tyrant, like a child demanding ice cream instead of broccoli and throwing a fit to get its way. — Robert Boswell

Remember that it is not by a tyrant's words, but only by his deeds that we can know him. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power. — Walter Raleigh

Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot. — Bill Vaughan

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

I have known many of those pretended champions for liberty in my time, yet do I not remember one that was not in his heart and in his family a tyrant. — Oliver Goldsmith

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

Today I shall be a wicked murderous tyrant and crush something nice under my heel. — Catherynne M Valente

Conversion is a change of masters. Will we not do as much for our new master, the Lord Jesus, as we did once for our old tyrant lusts? — Charles Spurgeon

Because if you don't know how to manage time, time can rule you like a tyrant. — Frank Partnoy

There aren't any answers to be found. There are no good choices. Submissiveness to a tyrant or chaos and suffering. — Brandon Sanderson

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. — Mike Tyson

In this, our age of infamy Man's choice is but to be A tyrant, traitor, prisoner: No other choice has he. — Alexander Pushkin

And mental states may be inferred from actions. The tyrant rarely sends a handwritten note requesting the elimination of an enemy. — Julian Barnes

Love reigns a very tyrant in my heart. — Thomas Otway

The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And I cannot, cannot go. — Emily Bronte

There's no tyrant like a brain. Below — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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

Spineless politics do not change the mind of a tyrant. — Friedrich Kellner

A wicked tyrant is better than a wicked war. — Martin Luther

I will never, for the future, paint the portrait of a tyrant until his head lies before me on the scaffold. — Jacques-Louis David

Are you a slave? Then you cannot be a friend. Are you a tyrant? Then you cannot have friends. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant. — Oriana Fallaci

Love is a tyrant sparing none. — Pierre Corneille

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

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

The shortest way to change a radical into a conservative, a liberal into a tyrant, a man into a beast, is to give him power over his fellows. — Benjamin Tucker

Work becomes at once a delight and a tyrant. For even when the time comes and you can relax, you hardly know how. — Alice Foote MacDougall

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend. — Aeschylus

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. — Helen Bosanquet

Justice and vengeance get all tangled together when the law is written by a tyrant and ultimately overturned by the forces of anger and resentment. — Robert J. Crane

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

For PEOPLE to rule themselves in a REPUBLIC , they must have virtue;for a TYRANT to rule in a TYRANNY ,he must use FEAR. — William J. Federer