Tyrant Quotes

Your breath comes to its end, O my merchant friend, and your shoulders are weighed down by the tyrant of old age. Not one iota of virtue came into you, O my merchant friend; bound and gagged by evil, you are driven along. - Sri Guru Granth Sahib

Young tyrants are more genocidal than old tyrants - with the exception of Khomeini. - John McCarthy

You can never tire, never wilt-and become half-tyrant, half-psychiatrist, half-madman, and half-dead to get it the way you want. Which I did. And it almost killed me. - Dirk Benedict

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. - William Lloyd Garrison

With necessity, / The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds. - John Milton

Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything. - John Polkinghorne

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants. - Edmund Burke

While the people off fighting foreign tyrants generally get the praise of the American public, those who fight American tyrants mostly just get funny looks from their fellow Americans. - Larken Rose