Tyrant Quotes

Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason ...

It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied wi...

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

...Whilst on board the Beagle I was quite orthodox, and I remember being heartily laughed at by seve...

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

Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matt...

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

That figure stood for a long time wholly in the light; this arose from a certain legendary dimness e...

I clearly understand, first, that the real human being is a poet and, second, that [the tyrant] is t...