Tyrannical Quotes

… preposterous little czar

Americans are the great Satan, the wounded snake.

The Freedom Caucus represents a pessimistic, divisive, and gerrymandered view of our nation. If America is to make progress, we must step forward from this form of politics - not just because we disagree with this or that policy but because it is fundamentally undemocratic and tyrannical.

Be wary of friends—they will betray you more quickly, for they are easily aroused to envy. They also become spoiled and tyrannical. But hire a former enemy and he will be more loyal than a friend, because he has more to prove. In fact, you have more to fear from friends than from enemies. If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.

A pure democracy is generally a very bad government, It is often the most tyrannical government on earth; for a multitude is often rash, and will not hear reason.

... immoral, evil and a demagogue.

Shredder is about as evil as it gets. He is a man fueled by jealousy and rage. At the same time, he doesn't micromanage, so his gang is free to do what they want.

Hitler—this bloodthirsty guttersnipe.

Some people are very dictatorial and it's not a good feeling, and it kind of inhibits you, because you feel like you have more to offer than what they're trying to squeeze you into, some kind of box or something like that.

A man of irregular and insatiable ambition ...who ought not be trusted with the reins of government

The Second Amendment, like the rest of the Bill of Rights, was meant to inhibit only the federal government, not the states. The framers, as The Federalist Papers attest (see No. 28), saw the state militias as forces that might be summoned into action against the federal government itself, if it became tyrannical.

I always think of the Joker as the ultimate bully. Nothing he says is funny except to him.

… Mobuto is an irritating and often stupid man who can be cruel to the point of inhumanity.

Control is not humble; control is arrogant.

I believe that Clinton is the most wicked and vile President that this nation has ever had.

Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.

My father was just an evil man.

Donald Trump really has authoritarian, dictatorial instincts.

My old man was ruthless. He terrorised us.

Tories are depraved, malignant, avaricious, and haughty.

The planner is a potential dictator who wants to deprive all other people of the power to plan and act according to their own plans. He aims at one thing only: the exclusive absolute preeminence of his own plan.

The biggest threat to our future isn’t climate change, China or the national debt. It is the tyrannical grip that a hopelessly corrupt higher education now has on our national life.

Just in terms of when I got the script, the character I probably liked the least was Big Foster. Because even though he was central to the story and to that world, he was really written to be kind of a brute, a pig, a completely black-and-white bad guy.

Legislatures have no right to set up an inquisition and examine into the private opinions of men. Test-laws are useless and ineffectual, unjust and tyrannical.

There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.