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

The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims. — Lu Xun

If not for tragedy, tyrants, and injustice, there would be nothing to awaken and inspire dormant heroes. There is always a balance. Always. — Steve Maraboli

Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannise their teachers. — Socrates

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

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

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

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

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

The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants. — Horace

Our rational, grown-up selves are good liars. The five-year-old tyrants within us are the ones who can tell it like it is. — Brene Brown

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

I do not see why I should be polite to tyrants, who slobber of humanitarianism and think only of their own petty interests. — Paul Feyerabend

Sometimes tyrants do away with the necessity of satire by imposing absurdity themselves. — Thomas Keneally

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

The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power. — Roger L'Estrange

Stability and security are just illusions. But they are necessary illusions because without them there would be no way of going on. — Andrew Crofts

Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God. — Stephen R. Prothero

Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants. — Julien Green

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

Was there really something to the obsolete idea of a national character? Some countries just changed tyrants, without changing anything else. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

This is how tyrants fall. By destroying their people, they destroy themselves. — Brent Weeks

The idea of most use to tyrants is that of God, — Stendhal

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

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

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

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

Laugh at tyrants and the tragedy they inflict. Such men welcome our tears as evidence of subservience, but our laughter condemns them to ignominy. — Dean Koontz

Let us render the tyrant no aid. — Frederick Douglass

Poets and intellectuals ... are the ones the tyrants go after first. — Frederick Smock

The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God. — Stendhal

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

There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly terrible to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a free press. — Samuel

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

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

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

Why independence, if the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow? — Jose Rizal

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

Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords. — John Sterling

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

Flight is lawful, when one flies from tyrants. — Jean Racine

I am a foe to tyrants, and my country's friend. — Seth Grahame-Smith

My actions are ruled by appetite, passion, prejudice, greed, love, fear, environment, habit, and the worst of these tyrants is habit. — Og Mandino

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

Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less. — Tim Ferriss

Secrets, like tyrants, have influence that extends far beyond their own thrones. To silence their oppressive powers, they must be uncrowned. — Ina Catrinescu

The consent of the governed is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well. — Walter Lippmann

People cheer on tyrants for fear of becoming targets. — Andrew Sturm

Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation. — Walter Savage Landor

Neither can oath nor promise bind any such people to obey and maintain tyrants against God and against his truth known. — John Knox

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

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

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

Socialism was made to order for tyrants. — James Cook

[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

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

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

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

Let tyrants shake their iron rod. — William Billings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

None but tyrants have any business to be afraid. — Hardouin De Perefixe De Beaumont

Tyrants have only one problem in life.
They simply just wanna rule everything. — Toba Beta

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

tyrants always set about shaping history after their liking. — Douglas Bond

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

How can tyrants safely govern home,
Unless abroad they purchase great alliance. — William Shakespeare

It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice. — Henry A. Wallace

Nothing is so opportune for tyrants as a people tired of its liberty. — Alan Keyes

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

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

Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
— Clarence Darrow

One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants. — Marquis De Sade

The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything. — Clarence Darrow

Non-cooperation with tyrants is a duty. — Mahatma Gandhi

If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own. — James F. Cooper

Though tyrants threat, though Lyons rage and rore
Defy them all, and feare not to win out. — Elizabeth Melville

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

Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them. — Harold Evans

He created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! — J.K. Rowling

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