Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. [ Socrates ]
Clever tyrants are never punished. [ Voltaire ]
Doubt is the accomplice of tyranny. [ Amiel ]
Hardness ever of hardness is mother. [ William Shakespeare ]
Where law ends, there tyranny begins. [ Earl of Chatham ]
Love reigns a very tyrant in my heart. [ Otway ]
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. [ Burke ]
Is there no tyrant but the crowned one? [ Chenier ]
What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear? [ Juvenal ]
Be sure there are domestic tyrants also. [ Thackeray ]
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. [ Anonymous ]
Tyranny and anarchy are never far asunder. [ Bentham ]
A wicked tyrant is better than a wicked war. [ Luther ]
'Tis time to fear, when tyrants seem to kiss. [ William Shakespeare ]
I knew him tyrannous, and tyrants' fears
Decrease not, but grow faster than the years. [ William Shakespeare ]
Whoever is right, the persecutor must be wrong. [ William Penn ]
Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones,
And tottering empires rush by their own weight. [ Armstrong ]
Oppressive government is more cruel than a tiger. [ Confucius ]
A company of tyrants is inaccessible to all seductions. [ Voltaire ]
A man's tyranny is measured only by his power to abuse. [ Donn Piatt ]
The greatest tyranny is to love where we are not loved again. [ Balzac ]
The tyrant, it has been said, is but a slave turned inside out. [ Samuel Smiles ]
That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny. [ Pascal ]
Custom is the tyranny of the lower human faculties over the higher. [ Mme. Necker ]
The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice. [ Voltaire ]
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind. [ Colton ]
To give pain is the tyranny, - to make happy the true empire of beauty. [ Steele ]
Tyranny is irresponsible power ... whether the power be lodged in one or many. [ Canning ]
Where the hand of tyranny is long we do not see the lips of men open with laughter. [ Saadi ]
There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government. [ Johnson ]
Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth. [ John Ford ]
The history of woman is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known: the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
The greatest of all injustice is that which goes under the name of law; and of all sorts of tyranny, the forcing the letter of the law against the equity is the most insupportable. [ L'Estrange ]
What people will say - in these words there lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words bear sway everywhere. [ Auerbach ]
Government began in tyranny and force, in the feudalism of the soldier and the bigotry of the priest; and the ideas of justice and humanity have been fighting their way like a thunderstorm against the organised selfishness of human nature. [ Wendell Phillips ]
How often in the halls of legislation does eloquence unmask corruption, expose intrigue, and overthrow tyranny! In the cause of mercy it is omnipotent. It is bold in the consciousness of its superiority, fearless and unyielding in the purity of its motives. All opposition it destroys; all power it defies. [ Henry Melville ]
Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Domitian said, that nothing was more grateful; Aristotle afirmed that beauty was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature, and Ovid, alluding to him, calls it a favor bestowed by the gods. [ From the Italian ]