Tyrant Quotes
I'm glad I helped you, but I'd like to get to know you. Not just your body.
Professor [to Sammy]
I've spent my life doing what I had to do to survive. That's made me tough.
Leila
You're the wife of a despised ex dictator. What makes you think anyone would vote for you?
James Kipfer [to Leila]
When our children die, we weep alone. Yet they expect the whole world to howl at the death of one of theirs.
Nafisa
Barry: What do you want?
Ihab: I want you to live in agony for the rest of your life, like I will live in agony for the rest of mine.
You Americans are so arrogant, playing God, but there is no God but God.
Ihab
Then let's make peace. [pause] You don't really want that. You don't kill to survive. You kill to feel alive. That's why I feel sorry for you.
Emma [to Ihab]
Emma: I believe in leaving people be. Why should I apologize to you for that? You believe in a God that wants you to kill people. How sick is that?
Ihab: For your information, I do not kill for God. I kill to survive, so I can worship my God.
Emma: Bullsh*t. It's all in your head. There is no war between me and you.
Ihab: Oh, yes. Yes there is.
Sammy: I think it will always surprise me to see you pray. You still believe...in God? With everything that's happening?
Barry: I'm trying.
All of us are victims. The dead and the living.
Daliyah
It's not enough to hope though, is it? You have to do something.
Halima
I don't want you dead. I want you living, wishing you were dead.
Ihab
