#tyrant

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

All men would be tyrants if they could. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

#men #tyrants #would

This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#consequences #heroic #me #ordinary #ordinary people

The mob is the mother of tyrants. ↗

— Diogenes

#mother #tyrants

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them. ↗

— Voltaire

#before #destroying #laws #shade #slight

Clever tyrants are never punished. ↗

— Voltaire

#never #punished #tyrants

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

— David Warner

#be happy #could #happy #i #set

My dad was a tyrant. He used to physically beat the crap out of us. ↗

— Dennis Wilson

#crap #dad #out #physically #tyrant

God himself has no right to be a tyrant. ↗

— William Godwin

#himself #right #tyrant