Words matter. These are the best Tyrant Quotes from famous people such as David Warner, Voltaire, Richard Widmark, Richard Jefferies, Thomas Fuller, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I don’t think I could be happy as an actor if there was a tyrant on the set.
The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.
I loved Jack Ford. I got him in his later days, and he was a total tyrant and a total autocrat and an Irish drunk. But I had a great time.
No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed to serve the despot is the bitterest, the saddest matter of history; it is the saddest sight in our own day.
Cruelty is a tyrant that’s always attended with fear.
Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death.
Colonel Qaddafi’s tyranny was absolutist, monarchical, and personal. The problem with such dictatorships is that as long as the tyrant lives, he reigns and terrorizes.
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.
I’m a tyrant that you should trust, and you should let me run your life, because I do know what is best for you.
In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.
I’m going to show the world that I’m not a tyrant, much less a devil.
More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.
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.
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.
This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
My dad was a tyrant. He used to physically beat the crap out of us.
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.
The great universal literature has always had a tragic relation with freedom. The Greeks renounced absolute freedom and imposed order on chaotic mythology, like a tyrant.
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.
How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
There are those who think that in order to get respect you have to be some sort of tyrant or overly authoritative. You can be fair to people.
My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.
A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.
So my character on ‘Tyrant’ is a chap called Barry Al Fayeed, and he is the second son of a fictional Middle Eastern dictator. But, he has grown up since he was young in America. He’s trained as a doctor. He’s married a beautiful American girl, had two kids, so he’s very much an American.
What a thing, Europe. Europe! The cultured Europe! We are the barbarians, the Indians, the blacks, the southerners. How cynical is Europe. Chavez the tyrant! Chavez the strongman! Chavez, who wants to stay forever. While there, they have kings, my friend!
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
Destiny: A tyrant’s authority for crime and a fool’s excuse for failure.
Some of my favourite shows are ‘Black Mirror,’ a dystopian thriller show called ‘3%,’ ‘Ozark,’ ‘Tyrant,’ etc.
The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.
Obviously, ‘Homeland’ is not just a spy thriller. It’s more than that, but ‘Tyrant’ will be a bit more of a palace drama. It’ll be about the families, but there will be political intrigue as well.
Death is the tyrant of the imagination.
My father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little.
Obama is a tyrant the same way FDR was a tyrant. He has a view of presidential power that states: the government is in control of the country, and the president is in charge of the government. He’s taken an imperial view of the presidency.
In my travels, which have been wider than ever man yet accomplished, I have seen many, many wild beasts of Arabia and India; but this beast, that is commonly called a Tyrant, I know not how many heads it has, nor if it be crooked of claw, and armed with horrible fangs.
Ch’in Shih-huang is the first emperor of China. He united seven separate kingdoms into a single nation. He built the Great Wall and was buried with the terra-cotta soldiers. The Chinese have mixed feelings about him. They’re proud of the nation he created, but he was a maniacal tyrant.
We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandated of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them.
In every tyrant’s heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.
My father was a foreman on building sites and he was really good at getting a day’s work out of fellas. And he did it without being a tyrant. He was a good guy.
There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
God himself has no right to be a tyrant.
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
Faith is not about serving some tyrant in the sky that says, ‘You need to get your act together.’ Faith is about having a loving father who says, ‘Hey, listen… I’m here with you. I’m going to hold your hand. Just rock with me.’
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.
Conversion is a change of masters. Will we not do as much for our new master, the Lord Jesus, as we did once for our old tyrant lusts?
Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average person.
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.
