| Author |
Quotes |
| Aesop | Any excuse will serve a tyrant. |
| Andre Marie De Chenier | Is there no tyrant but the crowned one? |
| Clarence Darrow | The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything. |
| Cornelius Nepos | Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved. |
| Edward Abbey | The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny. |
| Frank L Stanton | The closed door and the sealed lips are prerequisites to tyranny. |
| George Santayana | Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them. |
| Hannah Arendt | Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. |
| Hannah Arendt | Under conditions of tyranny, it is far easier to act than to think. |
| Hardouin de Perefixe | None but tyrants have any business to be afraid. |
| Henry Brooke | Tyranny Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights, Howe'er his own commence, can never be But an usurper. |
| Jeremy Rentham | Tyranny and anarchy are never far asunder. |
| Joanna Baillie | The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend He now dare trust. |
| Pierre Corneille | Tyrant, step from the throne, and give place to thy master. |
| Robert Blair | Th' oppressive, sturdy, man-destroying villains, Who ravag'd kingdoms, and laid empires waste, And in a cruel wantonness of power, Thinn'd states of half their people, and gave up To want the rest. |
| Robert Herrick | 'Twixt kings and tyrans there's this difference known: Kings seek their subjects' good, tyrants their owne. |
| Soren Aabye Kierkegaard | The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins. |
| Thomas Paine | Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. |
| Victor Hugo | Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs. |
| Voltaire | Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them. |
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