#tyrant

The tyrant always talks as if he's preserving the best interests of his people when he actually acts to undermine them. ↗

— Ramman Kenoun

#actually #always #best #best interests #his

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

— Voltaire

#before #destroying #laws #shade #slight

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

Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#only #order #reagan #ronald #ronald reagan

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#every #freedom #himself #lived #tyrant

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

— Aeschylus

#end #every #friend #heart #in the end

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

— Frederick Douglass

#limits #oppose #prescribed #those #tyrants

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

#deny #ever #existed #kill #obsessed

Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm. ↗

— James Otis

#any #commission #control #every #imprison