Zitat des Tages über Tyrann / Tyrant:
Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.
The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.
A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
I shout at people... I am told that I'm a tyrant, but I still get things done, so that is fine.
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
We have to bring stability to Iraq, otherwise we will be faced with a future dilemma of sending our loved ones into harms way to stop a civil war or the rise of a new tyrant born from the instability that we created.
A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.
Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average person.
God himself has no right to be a tyrant.
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.
How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.
It was known in the mid 90s already that Saddam Hussein was a dangerous tyrant that he had already launched aggressions against Iran, he had invaded Kuwait.
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.
The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.
My father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little.
The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.
Death is the tyrant of the imagination.
There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.
My dad was a tyrant. He used to physically beat the crap out of us.
Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.
In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.
A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
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.
Colonel Qaddafi's tyranny was absolutist, monarchical, and personal. The problem with such dictatorships is that as long as the tyrant lives, he reigns and terrorizes.
No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed to serve the despot is the bitterest, the saddest matter of history; it is the saddest sight in our own day.
If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.
This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything.
For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.
