Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
Aesop
A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.
Georges Clemenceau
Love is a tyrant sparing none.
Pierre Corneille
I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.
Oriana Fallaci
Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.
Thomas Fuller
This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
Plato
More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.
Dennis Prager
Death is the tyrant of the imagination.
Bryan Procter
The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.
Voltaire
I don't think I could be happy as an actor if there was a tyrant on the set.
David Warner