tyrant, n.Definitions

The Tyrant is nothing but a slave turned inside out.

The Tyrant is one who seldom lacks pretexts.

The Tyrant's most useful idea is the idea of God.

A Tyrant is one who always has some slight shade of virtue. He supports the laws before destroying them.

A Tyrant is one who institutionalizes stupidity and is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.

The Tyrant is one who brings about troublous times to get destructive laws passed under cover of the public terror which the people would never adopt in cold blood.

The Tyrant is a child of pride who drinks from his sickening cup recklessness and vanity, until from his high crest headlong he plummets to the dust of hope.

The Tyrant is the man who narrows the scope of life, in other words creates a hell out of human life, agent of an anti-'resurrection.