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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them. — Emily Bronte

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

Tradition is the crown of the tyrant. — Pierce Brown

Forced to chose between one irascible tyrant and another, Laura had chosen the one which was greater, and also further away. — Margaret Atwood

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

I burst the tyrant bands, which held my sex in awe. — Deborah Sampson

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

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

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

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

As things stand the "intellectuals" only come out to lick the bones left over by the tyrant. — Nilantha Ilangamuwa

No tyrant could thrive where every subject said no. The tyrant thrives when the first fucking fool salutes. — Steven Erikson

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

The worst kind of tyrant is one that is righteously wrong — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

Freedom is an idea that no tyrant will ever crush. — Laurence Overmire

Why on earth would I try to escape the vile tyrant keeping me held hostage? I have no idea. — Sarah Michelle Lynch

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

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

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

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

Cursed greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused.
Virgil — Debby Grahl

Death is the last weapon of the tyrant; the point of the resurrection, despite much misunderstanding, is that death has been defeated. — N. T. Wright

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

O tyrant love, when held by you,
We may to prudence bid adieu.
[Fr., Amour! Amour! quand tu nous tiens
On peut bien dire, Adieu, prudence.] — Jean De La Fontaine

Liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother. — Camille Paglia

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

Love is a tyrant sparing none. — Pierre Corneille

My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant. — June Jordan

Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds. — Alexander Pope

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

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

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

Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused. — Virgil

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed. — Barbara Tuchman

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

There's only one life I want to take, and it was never yours. I came to kill the Tyrant. — Josephine Angelini

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

But you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that one thing you've never been able to kill, no matter how hard you try. I am hope. — Brandon Sanderson

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

Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual. — Thomas Jefferson

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

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

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

Dissembling courtesy! How fine this tyrant can trickle when she wounds! — William Shakespeare

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

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

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

Death is the tyrant of the imagination. — Bryan Procter

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

Speak to me, Jacob, do not play the tyrant.
Speak to me. — Maria McCann

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

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. — William Blake

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

Every rabbit-nation will find its tyrant! Oppressors are the destiny of coward and submissive nations! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

We can't just drop everything, sir!"
"Mister Lipwig. Is there something in the word 'tyrant' you do not understand? — Terry Pratchett

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

The tyrant is asleep to beauty and awake to ugliness. — Joshua Emmet

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

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

Let us render the tyrant no aid. — Frederick Douglass

O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men. — Virgil

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

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

The hero of yesterday becomes the tyrant of tomorrow, unless he crucifies himself today. — Joseph Campbell

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

The tyrant had said our backgrounds were similar, and in some ways they were. — Ann Leckie

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

My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible. — Mahatma Gandhi

Today's rebel is tomorrow's tyrant. — Ariel Durant

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

What kind of tyrant punishes everyone just to get back at the few he's mad at? I mean, besides Chris Christie. — Bill Maher

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

I would rather be my own tyrant than have someone else tyrannize me. — Henry Flagler

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

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