#tyrant

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them. ↗

— Emily Bronte

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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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Tyrants seldom want pretexts. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#seldom #tyrants #want

All men would be tyrants if they could. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

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This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

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I don't think I could be happy as an actor if there was a tyrant on the set. ↗

— David Warner

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God himself has no right to be a tyrant. ↗

— William Godwin

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Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

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I can't imagine anyone who doesn't think the world is safer without a tyrant who murdered his own people, used weapons of mass destruction against them and flouted the world for so many years. ↗

— Karen Hughes

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Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#crime #destiny #excuse #failure #fool