#tyrant

Love rules the world. Like a tyrant.
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— Jarod Kintz

#love #power #rules #tyrant #world

Voldemort himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back! ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#tyrants #enemy

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them. ↗

— Emily Bronte

#beneath #crush #down #grinds #him

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#policy #principle #rebels #subjects #tyrants

Tyrants seldom want pretexts. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#seldom #tyrants #want

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver. ↗

— Lord Byron

#been #bred #business #butcher #cleaver

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#bad #crushes #deplore #kills #loss

It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#case #coincidence #every #growth #heralded

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

— Barbara Tuchman

#every #puts #revolution #robes #successful

Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death. ↗

— Peter DeFazio

#am #brutal #crimes #death #deciding