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Aesop
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
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Andre Marie de Chenier
Is there no tyrant but the crowned one? [Fr., N'est-on jamais tyran qu'avec un diademe?]
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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.
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Cornelius Nepos
Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.
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Edward Abbey
The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
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Elbert Hubbard
Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom--for himself.
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Euripides
There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there are not laws in common, but one man, keeping the law himself to himself, has the sway, and this is no longer equal.
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Euripides
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
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Frank L. Stanton
The closed door and the sealed lips are prerequisites to tyranny.
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George Santayana
Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
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Hannah Arendt
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Hardouin de Perefixe
None but tyrants have any business to be afraid. [Fr., Fr., Il n'appartient, qu'aux tyrans d'etre toujours en crainte.]
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Henry Brooke
Tyranny Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights, Howe'er his own commence, can never be But an usurper.
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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.
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Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice-- The weakness and the wickedness of luxury-- The negligence--the apathy--the evils Of sensual sloth--produces ten thousand tyrants, Whose delegated cruelty surpasses The worst acts of one energetic master, However harsh and hard in his own bearing.
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Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Tyranny Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem None rebels except subjects? The prince who Neglects or violates his trust is more A brigand than the robber-chief.
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