Tyrannize Quotes

#1. Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.

James Madison

#2. If government is in the hands of the few, they will tyrannize the many; if in the hands of the many, they will tyrannize over the few. It ought to be in the hands of both, and be separated ... they will need a mutual check. This check is a monarch.

Alexander Hamilton

#3. My task is not to tyrannize but to destroy tyrants.

Cesare Borgia

#4. To tyrannize for the country is to tyrannize over the country

Rabindranath Tagore

#5. A man cannot love himself; he can only idolize it, and over the idol delightfully tyrannize - without purpose. The great gift which the simple idolatry of self gives is lack of further purpose

Charles Williams

#6. As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, ... The people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear arms.

Tench Coxe

#7. I sometimes think love consists precisely of the voluntary gift by the loved object of the right to tyrannize over it.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#8. Common sense is so just an understanding that it rises almost to a virtue; in truth, it involves virtues and their participation in judgment. For sound sense implies all powers uniting; none too prominent, so as to tyrannize; none too small, so as to be overborne.

James Vila Blake

#9. Misery is evil; quarreling, a misfortune. There is only one possibility of avoiding both: a clear division of society. [Otherwise] the strong tyrannize the weak, the intelligent frighten the stupid, the inferior resist the superior, and the young mock the old.

Xunzi

#10. Acknowledge your limitations or they will tyrannize over you.

Mason Cooley

#11. I would rather be my own tyrant than have someone else tyrannize me.

Henry Flagler

#12. The majority in a democracy has no more right to tyrannize over a minority than, under a different system, the latter would to oppress the former.

Theodore Roosevelt

#13. It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.

John Maynard Keynes

#14. No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.

Samuel Johnson

#15. Ideas tyrannize the man who has but few.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#16. Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.

Socrates

#17. So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

Voltaire

#18. My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.

Pierre Corneille

#19. The real disturbers of the peace are those who, in a free state, seek to curtail the liberty of judgment which they are unable to tyrannize over.

Baruch Spinoza

#20. Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize in the imagination, to raise phantoms of horror, or to beset life with supernumerary distresses.

Samuel Johnson

#21. Trends can tyrannize; trends are traps. In any creative industry, the fact that others are moving in a certain direction is always proof positive, at least to me, that a new direction is the only direction.

George Lois

#22. Ideal legislators do not vote their interests.

John Rawls

#23. Power is responsibility. Don't take advantage. Respect.

Lesley Howarth

#24. I had everything I'd hoped for, but I wasn't being myself. So I decided to be honest about who I was. It was strange: The people who loved me for being funny suddenly didn't like me for being ... me.

Ellen DeGeneres

#25. I turn away from the smell of death, pressing my lavender scented handkerchief as tight as I can against my nose.

Meghan Masterson

#26. Life may change but memories won't.

Nkaujzoo Lee

#27. I want to work with people who are good at what they do, and people who are passionate.

Willem Dafoe

#28. I sometimes feel that the world is a very uncivilised place where it is meant to be at its most civilised. Where it's meant to be intellectual or artistic or compassionate, it isn't, and that makes me very angry.

Rachel Cusk

#29. Financial problems cause distress and loss of self-respect.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#30. Film is the only technology that allows us to share subjectivity with someone else.

Jason Silva

#31. The machines need to get faster. They need to get cheaper.

Bill Gates