21 Metaphors for tyrants

A tyrant is the best sacrifice to Jupiter, as the ancients held, and his best object "a contented mind."

The word tyrant, is another exampleformerly it implied merely a possession of arbitrary power, but from the invariable abuse of such power by its possessors, the proper and entire meaning of the word is lost, and it now signifies merely one who exercises power to the injury of others.

the Queen said, not ungently, "I contrive, it may be, but to demonstrate that many tyrants of antiquity were only bunglers.

The tyrant of the Chersonese Was freedom's best and bravest friend That tyrant was Miltiades!

"Tyrant of Florence" was the designation which best fitted the new ruler.

Tyrants, hypocrites, sophists are the three plagues of humanity, standing between our intellect and God, who is the source of freedom, goodness, and true wisdom.

The tyrant feels himself a man, and subject to the weakness of humanity!Behold! and tell me, is that power contemptible which can thus find access to the sternest hearts?"Author.

The tyrant Kansa was only the worst and most powerful member of the demon hosts.

The tyrant of the Chersonese Was freedom's best and bravest friend That tyrant was Miltiades!

AGATH`OCLES, the tyrant of Syracuse, by the massacre of thousands of the inhabitants, was an enemy of the Carthaginians, and fought against them; was poisoned in the end (361-289 B.C.).

The tyrants and deceivers of mankind in this matter have been the Greeks.

In Ireland the "Danes," as they are popularly called, were always strangers, heathen tyrants, hated and despised oppressors, who retorted this scorn and hatred in the fullest possible measure upon their antagonists.

"We hesitate to determine, whether the Tyrant alone, is the nominative, or whether the nominative includes the spy.

A tyrant is not a democrat, for he believes in government by force; neither is a demagogue a democrat, for he believes in government by flattery.

My Tyrant is an old jealous Fellow, who allows me nothing to appear in.

Line 3: the tyrant is Aristotle.

we thought all the tyrants were we Bearded Ones.

* Men of very great capacity, will as a rule, find the company of very stupid people preferable to that of the common run; for the same reason that the tyrant and the mob, the grandfather and the grandchildren, are natural allies.

What a madd tyrant is mans stronge beleife!

They said, "that the tyrants, Hieronymus, and, after him, Hippocrates and Epicydes, had been objects of detestation to them, both on other accounts and especially on account of then deserting the Romans to take part with Hannibal.

I hate tyrants in ever form and shape: but paternal and maternal tyrants are the worst of all: for they can have no bowels.

21 Metaphors for  tyrants