Top Tyrant Quotes
There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
Robert Green Ingersoll
The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.
George W. Bush
My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.
June Jordan
The tyrant always talks as if he's preserving the best interests of his people when he actually acts to undermine them.
Ramman Kenoun
The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.
Voltaire
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This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.
Philip K. Dick 
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Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.
James Otis
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A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
Aldous Huxley
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Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.
Marshall McLuhan
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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.
Bertrand Russell
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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
Emily Bronte
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If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.
Lord Byron
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Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything.
John Polkinghorne
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