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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
There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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 fromwhich 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
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[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
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
There aren't any answers to be found. There are no good choices. Submissiveness to a tyrant or chaos and suffering.
— Brandon Sanderson
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
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
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
