We felt that they were not the tyrants to rule our lot according to their caprice, but the agents and creators of all the many delights which we enjoyed. – Mary Shelley Frankenstein, Chapter 2. Victor describing his parents and a happy childhood.
It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed. – Helen Dunmore
Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them. – George Santayana
