Tyrants

Examples

• In Greece they were called _tyrants_. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It is those who injure women who get the most kindness from them--they are born timid and tyrants and maltreat those who are humblest before them. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I chiefly fed mine eyes with beholding the destroyers of tyrants and usurpers, and the restorers of liberty to oppressed and injured nations. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• By-and-by they'll find out, tyrants makes liars. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The consent of the governed is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• There is no need to suppose that he drew from life; or that his knowledge of tyrants is derived from a personal acquaintance with Dionysius. Plato. The Republic.
• As they say, the persons who hate Irishmen most are Irishmen; so, assuredly, the greatest tyrants over women are women. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• All princes who are disposed to become tyrants must probably approve of this opinion, and be willing to establish it; but is it not a dangerous one? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Like other tyrants, I carried my point. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• So dunnot turn faint-heart, and go to th' tyrants a-seeking work. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Tyrants were distinguished from kings, who claimed some sort of right, some family priority, for example, to rule. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Euripides exhibited the last phase of the tragic drama, and in him Plato saw the friend and apologist of tyrants, and the Sophist of tragedy. Plato. The Republic.
• Madmen like Pitt, demons like Castlereagh, mischievous idiots like Perceval, were the tyrants, the curses of the country, the destroyers of her trade. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• When, later on, the Persians began to subjugate the Greek cities of Asia Minor, they set up pro-Persian tyrants. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Not least among the blessings is a shattering of the good-and-bad-man theory: the assassination of tyrants or the adoration of saviors. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• They were created mainly by tyrants; most of them by the unrequited toil of degraded and enslaved labourers. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• For other crimes as tyrants and oppressors, I have this race a long time on my register, doomed to destruction and extermination. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.

Edited by Kelsey