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| He (Thomas Paine) saw oppression on every hand; injustice everywhere; hypocrisy at the altar; venality on the bench, tyranny on the throne; and with a splendid courage he espoused the cause of the weak against the strong |
| Robert Green Ingersoll |
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| It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow citizens |
| John Maynard Keynes |
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| Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing [a people] to slavery. |
| Thomas Jefferson |
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| Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs |
| Victor Hugo |
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| The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny |
| Mark Twain |
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| The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities |
| Theodore Roosevelt |
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| The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins |
| Søren Kierkegaard |
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| The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience |
| Albert Camus |
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| The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts. |
| Oscar Wilde |
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| This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. |
| Plato |
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| Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort. |
| Marshall McLuhan |
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| Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them |
| George Santayana |
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| Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them |
| Voltaire |
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| When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. |
| Plato |
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