Famous Quotes
89 Quotations with Tyrant.
- 1. Frederick Douglass: The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
- 2. Edward Bulwer-Lytton: When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
- 3. Mahatma Gandhi: The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
- 4. Ambrose Bierce: DESTINY, n. A tyrant's authority for crime and fool's excuse for failure.
- 5. Ambrose Bierce: MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as ...
- 6. Ambrose Bierce: REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. Speci ...
- 7. Ambrose Bierce: WEAKNESSES, n.pl. Certain primal powers of Tyrant Woman wherewith she holds domi ...
- 8. Socrates: Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, an ...
- 9. Thomas Jefferson: Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
- 10. David Brin: It's said that 'power corrupts', but actually it's more true that power attracts ...
- 11. William Pitt: Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argumen ...
- 12. Aesop: Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
- 13. Plato: The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into grea ...
- 14. Bertrand Barere de Vieuzac: The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants.
- 15. Colton: War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and ...
- 16. William Lloyd Garrison: With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants ...
- 17. Virgil: O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men.
- 18. William Shakespeare: Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.
- 19. Aristotle: Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of thei ...
- 20. Victor Hugo: Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacre ...