Tyrant Quotes

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

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.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

I don't think I could be happy as an actor if there was a tyrant on the set.

A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

God himself has no right to be a tyrant.