The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And I cannot, cannot go.
I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.
There are two kinds of rebellion. The first is one in which the slave demands something that the tyrant has got. The second is one in which he demands something that the tyrant has not got.
There's no tyrant like a brain.
The tyrant is a child of pride.
The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.
Fear is a psychic tyrant that has no intention of letting its slave go free. It will say whatever it needs to say to confuse your thinking. . . It will always seek to preserve itself.
We always think we are right, and - search as I have - there is no evil under the sun that somebody somewhere won't argue is actually a good, no idiocy that hasn't got its perfectly serious defenders, and no tyrant, past or present - no matter how bloody - without some bunch of zealot schmucks to defend him or his reputation till the last breath in their bodies - or preferably somebody else's.
Love reigns a very tyrant in my heart.
Death is the ultimate weapon of the tyrant; resurrection does not make a covenant with death, it overthrows it.
To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.
Speak to me, Jacob, do not play the tyrant. Speak to me.
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.
When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys
Verily, the index finger that testifies to the oneness of Allah Azzawajal in prayer, utterly rejects to write even an alphabet, endorsing the rule of the tyrant
Hold firm to your vision but don't be a tyrant on set.
Each man too is a tyrant in tendency, because he would impose his idea on others; and their trick is their natural defence. Jesuswould absorb the race; but Tom Paine or the coarsest blasphemer helps humanity by resisting this exuberance of power.
Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest. . . and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war