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A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the
profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.
Author:
Source: None
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No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each
other.
Author:
Source: None
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The tyrant now
Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber
The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend
He now dare trust.
Author: Joanna Baillie
Source: Ethwald (pt. II, act V)
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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.
Author: Robert Blair
Source: The Grave (l. 9)
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Tyranny
Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights,
Howe'er his own commence, can never be
But an usurper.
Author: Henry Brooke
Source: Gustavus Vasa (act IV, sc. 1)
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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.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Sardanapalus (act I, sc. 2)
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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.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: The Two Foscari (act II, sc. 1)
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Is there no tyrant but the crowned one?
[Fr., N'est-on jamais tyran qu'avec un diademe?]
Author: Andre Marie de Chenier
Source: Caius Gracchus
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Tyrant, step from the throne, and give place to thy master.
[Fr., Tyran, descends du trone et fais place a ton maitre.]
Author: Pierre Corneille
Source: Heraclius (I, 2)
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Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die.
[Fr., Tremblez, tyrans, vous etes immortels.]
Author: Jacques Delille (Jaques Delisle)
Source: L'Immortalite de l'Ame
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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.
Author: Euripides
Source: Suppliants (429), (Oxford translation revised by Buckley)
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I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my
perfect right.
Author: Euripides
Source: Suppliants (429), (Oxford translation revised by Buckley)
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'Twixt kings and tyrans there's this difference known:
Kings seek their subjects' good, tyrants their owne.
Author: Robert Herrick
Source: Kings and Tyrants
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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.
Author: Victor Hugo
Source: The Vanished City
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Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Source: found among his papers after his death
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What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear?
[Lat., Quid violentius aure tyranni?]
Author: Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
Source: Satires (IV, 86)
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It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli (Macchiavelli)
Source: The Prince
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None but tyrants have any business to be afraid.
[Fr., Fr., Il n'appartient, qu'aux tyrans d'etre toujours en
crainte.]
Author: Hardouin de Perefixe
Source: attributed to Henry IV
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His demand
Springs not from Edward's well-meant honest love,
Bur from deceit, bred by necessity;
For how can tyrants safely govern home
Unless abroad they purchase great alliance?
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part III (Queen Margaret at III, iii)
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Bleed, bleed, poor Country!
Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure,
For goodness dare not check thee; wear thou thy wrongs,
The title is affeered!
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Macbeth (Macduff at IV, iii)
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O nation miserable,
With an untitled tyrant bloody-sceptred,
When shalt thou see thy wholesome days again,
Since that the truest issue of thy throne
By his own interdiction stands accursed
And does blaspheme his breed?
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Macbeth (Macduff at IV, iii)
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This tyrant, whole sole name blisters our tongues,
Was once thought honest; you have loved him well;
He hath not touched you yet.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Macbeth (Malcolm at IV, iii)
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But thou know'st this,
'Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Pericles Prince of Tyre (Pericles at I, ii)
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I knew him tyrannous; and tyrants' fears
Decrease not, but grow faster than the years;
And should he doubt it, as no doubt he doth,
That I should open to the list'ning air
How many worthy princes' bloods were shed
To keep his bed of blackness unlaid ope,
To lop that doubt, he'll fill this land with arms
And make pretense of wrong that I have done him;
When all, for mine, if I may call offense,
Must feel war's blow, who spares not innocence;
Which love to all, of which thyself art one,
Who now reproved'st me for't--
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Pericles Prince of Tyre (Pericles at I, ii)
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For what is he they follow? Truly, gentlemen,
A bloody tyrant and a homicide;
One raised in blood and one in blood established;
One that made means to come by what he hath,
And slaughtered those that were the means to help him;
A base foul stone, made precious by the foil
Of England's chair, where he is falsely set;
One that hath ever been God's enemy.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (Richmond at V, iii)
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Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
Author: Aesop
Source: None
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
Author: Hannah Arendt
Source: None
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You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbour.
Author: Walter Bagehot
Source: None
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The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
Author: Edward Abbey
Source: None
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The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
Author: Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
Source: None
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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.
Author: Clarence Darrow
Source: None
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Under conditions of tyranny, it is far easier to act than to think.
Author: Hannah Arendt
Source: None
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There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
Author: William Hazlitt
Source: None
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Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom--for himself.
Author: Elbert Hubbard
Source: None
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Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.
Author: Cornelius Nepos
Source: None
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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.
Author: Thomas Paine
Source: None
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Tyranny and anarchy are never far asunder.
Author: Jeremy Rentham
Source: None
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Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
Author: George Santayana
Source: None
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The closed door and the sealed lips are prerequisites to tyranny.
Author: Frank L. Stanton
Source: None
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Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
Author: Voltaire
Source: None
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I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Source: None
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