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Babies are frightening
raw tyrants whose only kingdom is their own body. — Jeanette Winterson

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

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

A nation which enslaves another forges its own chains. — Karl Marx

the mob is the most ruthless of tyrants; — Friedrich Nietzsche

The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good.
Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly. — William Shakespeare

The goal of tyrants is tyranny, and the goal of tyranny is tyranny. — Donald James

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

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

Sir 11:5 Many tyrants have sat on the throne, and he whom no man would think on, hath worn the crown. — Various

Let tyrants shake their iron rod. — William Billings

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

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

That's what tyrants do, I guess. They make you covet their attention; they make you confuse attention for mercy. — Gary Shteyngart

The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the free. — Angelina Grimke

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants. — Edmund Burke

Love is a tyrant, resisted. — John Ford

...the greatest tyrants over women are women. — William Makepeace Thackeray

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

Morality is stronger than tyrants. — Louis Antoine De Saint-Just

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. — Abigail Adams

[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

Like all true tyrants, he has divided them, and makes them spend their heart's hatred on one another." "But — Mayne Reid

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. — Oliver Goldsmith

All nationhood is to some extent the artificial, the product of historical accident, the convenience of tyrants and the disengagement of colonists. — George Monbiot

Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from citizens. — Baruch Spinoza

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

Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants. — William Penn

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God. — Benjamin Franklin

Whenever all men are ... hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey. — C.S. Lewis

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

Those who would be called tyrants cannot be called free men. — Nathan Huggins