#tyrant

Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free. ↗

— Bill Richardson

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The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free. ↗

— George W. Bush

#free #iraq #tyrant

A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant. ↗

— George Byron

#any #expect #find #gives #later

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant. ↗

— June Jordan

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The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#dies #his #martyr #over #rule

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them. ↗

— George Santayana

#enslave #free #instruments #seldom #their

Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords. ↗

— John Sterling

#affords #fiercest #lords #our #own

Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#good #history #invincibility #tyrants #victory

Woe is the mind of the common man, so easily controlled by the prospect of an ambition never to be truly attained. This is what tyrants live on and by what commoners are blissfully burdened and subdued. ↗

— Evan Meekins

#fantasy-fiction #fiction #tyranny #tyrant #young-adult