Quotes About Tyrant

The Emperor was a bitter, cruel, unpredictable and depraved man, not above murdering people he perceived as his enemies, even if they were relatives.

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.]

In Yildiz Kiosk, the tyrant who still throve there conferred on her the Order of Chastity, and offered her the central couch in his seraglio.

Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer.

If the purpose of life was to be an unpredictable, murderous tyrant, then it would be easy to be godlike, but I suspected we had a different duty and that was to try to make the world better.

Who slays a tyrant is no murderer but patriot. A deliverer of his country, as Harmodius and Aristogeiton!

The tyrant is a child of PrideWho drinks from his great sickening cupRecklessness and vanity,Until from his high crest headlongHe plummets to the dust of hope.

The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong He plummets to the dust of hope.

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

Power lies in reason, resolution, and truth. No matter how long the tyrant endures, he will be the loser at the end.

not take an oath to a king, or a queen," Milley told the crowd, "to a tyrant or a dictator. We do not take an oath to an individual. No, we do not take an

An utter and complete tyrant, her face only melted at Mass, a ritual she clearly loved.

Let's keep going. Decree Number Two. Holidays, more holidays. There you go again with an ungovernmental approach! First and foremost are civil liberties, not holidays. Why? What does it matter? Because! That's how revolution is always done: first the tyrant is overthrown, then the new Boss of everything is named, and then come civil liberties.

Of the people, by the people, for the people. I can't remember offhand where that quote comes from; it was something to do with some bunch of wild-eyed idealists overthrowing the tyrant so they could become tyrants themselves. No good will have come of it, you can be sure. The people; God help us.

If Truth is taken away from us, then Right and Wrong are taken from us as well. If we don't know Right and Wrong, then we can't, we won't control ourselves, but will look to someone else to bring order through brute force and raw power. We will be controlled by a tyrant, and we will no longer be free...

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.

I consider myself to be a man of principle. But, what man does not? Even the cutthroat, I have noticed, considers his actions "moral" after a fashion. Perhaps another person, reading of my life, would name me a religious tyrant. He could call me arrogant. What is to make that man's opinion any less valid than my own? I guess it all comes down to one fact: In the end, I'm the one with the armies.

There aren't any answers to be found. There are no good choices. Submissiveness to a tyrant or chaos and suffering.

What was a god who only made demands? Nothing but a tyrant with a different name.

would name me a religious tyrant. He could call me arrogant. What is to make that man's opinion any less valid

The most dangerous kind of man is not the one who spent his youth shoving others around. That kind of man gets lazy, and is often too content with his life to be truly dangerous. The man who spent his youth being shoved around, however . . . When that man gets a little power and authority, he often uses it to become a tyrant on par with the worst warlords in history.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds. Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.