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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
— Emily Bronte
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
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
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
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
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
— Barbara Tuchman
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
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 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
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 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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
