Top Tyrant Quotes
There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
Robert Green Ingersoll
God himself has no right to be a tyrant.
William Godwin
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
Carl Levin 
William Godwin 
Emile M. Cioran 
Bertrand Russell 
Barbara Tuchman 
Georges Clemenceau 
John Polkinghorne 
Aldous Huxley All Tyrant Quotes
My dad was a tyrant. He used to physically beat the crap out of us.
Dennis Wilson 
47% of people like this quote
In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.
Emile M. Cioran
47% of people like this quote
Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
Ambrose Bierce
47% of people like this quote
The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.
John Adams
46% of people like this quote
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.
Friedrich August von Hayek
46% of people like this quote
In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
Aeschylus
46% of people like this quote
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
Barbara Tuchman
44% of people like this quote
I can't imagine anyone who doesn't think the world is safer without a tyrant who murdered his own people, used weapons of mass destruction against them and flouted the world for so many years.
Karen Hughes
44% of people like this quote
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
Aristotle
43% of people like this quote
More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.
Dennis Prager
43% of people like this quote
Popular Tyrant Authors
Francois de La RochefoucauldMohandas GandhiThomas Jefferson VoltaireAmbrose Bierce Plato AristotleBertrand RussellThomas FullerAldous Huxley AeschylusLord ByronEmile M. CioranGeorge W. BushElbert Hubbard
Pierre CorneilleMarshall McLuhanSoren Kierkegaard AesopRobert Green IngersollWilliam GodwinJohn AdamsOriana FallaciGeorge ByronFriedrich August von HayekWilliam Ralph IngeJohn PolkinghorneDouglas FeithPeter DeFazioJune Jordan
More »