Tyrant Quotes

“The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.”
― Soren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard

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

“It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.”
― Aristotle

“We can't just drop everything, sir!"
"Mister Lipwig. Is there something in the word 'tyrant' you do not understand?”
― Terry Pratchett, Raising Steam

“for PEOPLE to rule themselves in a REPUBLIC , they must have virtue;for a TYRANT to rule in a TYRANNY ,he must use FEAR.”
― William J Federer, Change to Chains-The 6,000 Year Quest for Control -Volume I-Rise of the Republic

“You can cite a hundred references to show that the biblical God is a bloodthirsty tyrant, but if they can dig up two or three verses that say 'God is love,' they will claim that you are taking things out of context!”
― Dan Barker, Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist

“To have reservations is to show true leadership. To have certainty without question, to lead people to battle with no qualms, or to prosecute without hesitation are qualities of a tyrant.”
― Laura Kreitzer, Abyss

“Wherever you see a wall, demolish it to broaden the horizons of the world! Wherever you see a tyrant, take him down to increase the light of the world!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“But the Egotist is stuck somewhere between his hidden triad of pride, fear, and insecurity; he is forever fighting to prove himself, instigating battles the Humbleman has unwittingly conquered, already sealed some time ago. Yes, the day he finally accepts face-to-face such an irony as humility - the irony that humility is indeed the mother of giants, that great men, having life so large, as needed, can afford to appear small - the world will then know peace.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“A place where soldiers found themselves as rulers, Shakuni thought, can only breed tyrants.”
― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness

“I am becoming a tyrant, threatening in place of convincing. Unstable instead of steadying.

I am suited to the shadows, to the art of knives and bloodshed and coups, to poisoned words and poisoned cups. I never expected to rise so high as the throne. And I fear that I am utterly unsuited to the task.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“What was a god who only made demands? Nothing but a tyrant with a different name.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Rhythm of War

“The day you’ll start craving for a savior to deliver you is the day you’ll welcome any tyrant into your soul. Freedom is the game of the unsaved and the unsavable.”
― Giannis Delimitsos, A PHILOSOPHICAL KALEIDOSCOPE: Thoughts, Contemplations, Aphorisms

“The rule through pandemic medical and emergency decrees is nothing more than a coup d’état on a worldwide scale and it therefore follows the same patterns, not necessarily in the same order, observed in banana republics:
First, pointing to a threat, lockdown of the borders, and restrictions of the means of transportation; checked.
Second, full control of the media; checked.
Third, declaration of a state of emergency and deployment of forces on the ground; checked.
Fourth, restrictions of assembly and civil rights; checked.
Fifth, repressive measure for those not cooperating; checked.
Sixth, changes to the figures and political scene as some go away and old ones come back; checked.
Seventh, attempt to return to normalcy; checked. - On Tyranny Through Emergency Decrees”
― Lamine Pearlheart, Awakening

“It takes a heart to be a man, but it only takes an ego to be a tyrant.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“There is only one thing worse than a tyrant and that is a tyrant's victim.”
― Henry James

“Delivering (again) is not going to quench discontent in your team, but it’s going to give everyone involved a chance to speak up, and that should push your management karma toward motivator and away from tyrant.”
― Michael Lopp, Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager

“At the end of the virus psychosis, the population will be so ripped off that it will be left naked, but it will be relieved that it doesn’t have to wear a mask any more. - On Pandemics”
― Lamine Pearlheart, Awakening

“Through the novel coronavirus hoax, which literally was inspired by a novel, the owners of the world have flexed their muscles and the whole planet has reacted. - On the Novel Inspired Virus”
― Lamine Pearlheart, Awakening

“There is as much truth in the COVID-19 case as there was in the claim of existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq under Saddam Hussein. COVID-19 with its antisocial laws is but the traditional coup of power consolidation by the few and the transfer of the valuable goods of the many into their hands. - On the Novel Virus”
― Lamine Pearlheart, Awakening

“The rule through pandemic medical and emergency decrees is nothing more than a coup d’état on a worldwide scale and it therefore follows the same patterns, not necessarily in the same order, observed in banana republics:
First, pointing to a threat, lockdown of the borders, and restrictions of the means of transportation; checked.
Second, full control of the media; checked.
Third, declaration of a state of emergency and deployment of forces on the ground; checked.
Fourth, restrictions of assembly and civil rights; checked.
Fifth, repressive measure for those not cooperating; checked.
Sixth, changes to the figures and political scene as some go away and old ones come back; checked.
Seventh, attempt to return to normalcy; checked. - Tyranny Through Emergency Decrees”
― Lamine Pearlheart

“Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer.”
― Ben Jonson, Sejanus: His Fall

“Leaders make mistakes, and those mistakes amplified by the number of those who follow without questioning, move inevitably toward great disasters.”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

“You cannot find a Tyrant that trusts in the Enlightenment, rules without Chains and Executioners, hates the Whistleblowers, and demolishes Dungeons; on the contrary, the Tyrant's order relies on them.”
― Jeyhun Aliyev Silo, To Be Tried As A Jew

“To be free, means to have no master but Nature”
― Jeyhun Aliyev Silo, To Be Tried As A Jew

“The biggest egos are the most fragile.”
― Candice Jarrett, Mortal Tether

“We spend our lives using our liberties to engage in the very things that enslave us. And that’s because we’ve taken license with the gift of liberty, rendered it a stepchild to the bane of our greed, and found our lives enslaved to the tyrant that we have become.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“What eight things never have their fill of what eight things?”
“The ocean, of water from the rivers; the fire, of fuel; the woman, of sexual pleasure; the raja, of dominion; the rich man, of wealth; the learned man, of knowledge; the foolish man, of folly; the tyrant, of oppression.”
― Intizar Husain, Basti

“Where tears fall, the earth remembers, whispering to both the tyrant and the broken: 'Here, in this very place, kindness will grow again, stronger than before.”
― Syed Buali Gillani

“O mother, mother! What have you done?
Behold, the heavens do ope,
The gods look down, and this unnatural scene
They laugh at.
Act 5, Scene 3”
― William Shakespeare, Coriolanus