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

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
Aldous Huxley

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.
Bertrand Russell

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
Aristotle

A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
George Byron

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
Aesop

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

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

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.
Barry Cornwall

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
Ambrose Bierce

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.
James Otis

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
Barbara Tuchman

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.
Elbert Hubbard

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.
Matthew Prior

God himself has no right to be a tyrant.
William Godwin

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
Samuel Adams

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

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

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

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.
Richard Widmark