#tyrant

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend. ↗

— Aeschylus

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

— Aristotle

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

— Ambrose Bierce

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The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants. ↗

— Albert Camus

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The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

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It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

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