“What do you mean by a tyrant?”

“When you fight a war against a tyrant, who do you kill? You kill the victims of the tyrant.”

“If Obama's a tyrant, he's a pretty tame tyrant. How many tyrants do you know that really suffer because they can't get cloture?”

“Do you, then, repent of not being a tyrant too?”

“Freedom does not mean doing what you can get away with, doing what you please. It means, instead, having the opportunity to do what you ought to do--for family and for community and for humanity as a whole.”

“Do you know what it means to be loved by Death?… Do you know what it means to have Death know your name?”

“How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!”

“In modern language we think of "idiot" as someone who is stupid or a fool. That is not the classical meaning... An idiot is someone who cares only about himself and has no regard for anyone else, and that's terribly important when you think about tyrants. ...We think of tyrants as people who are horrible... oppressors. ...In its classic historic meaning, tyrant was simply someone who ceased power.”

“What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.”

“It's not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.”