“There's no tyrant like a brain.”

— Louis-ferdinand Céline , book Journey to the End of the Night

Source: Journey to the End of the Night

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Louis-ferdinand Céline 88

French writer 1894–1961

David Gemmell book The Swords of Night and Day

Source: Drenai series, The Swords of Night and Day, Ch. 10
Context: It is the curse of absolute power, Olek. There is no one to admonish you, no laws save those you make. We like to believe there is something special, even alien, about evil. We like to think that tyrants are different from the rest of us. That they are somehow inhuman. They are not. They are merely unchained, unfettered; free to do as they please.

“Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his.”

William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879) American journalist

Vol. I, p. 268
William Lloyd Garrison 1805-1879 (1885)

“A man like me cannot live without a hobby-horse, a consuming passion — in Schiller's words a tyrant.”

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis

Ein Mensch wie ich kann ohne Steckenpferd, ohne herrschende Leidenschaften, ohne einen Tyrannen in Schillers Worten, nicht leben. Ich habe meinen Tyrannen gefunden und in seinem Dienst kenne ich kein Maß.
Letter to Wilhelm Fliess (1895), as quoted in Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences Vol 3-4 (1967) p. 159
1890s
Context: A man like me cannot live without a hobby-horse, a consuming passion — in Schiller's words a tyrant. I have found my tyrant, and in his service I know no limits. My tyrant is psychology. it has always been my distant, beckoning goal and now since I have hit upon the neuroses, it has come so much the nearer.