#tyrant

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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Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

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You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff. ↗

— Richard Pryor

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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

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

— George Byron

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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

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

— George Santayana

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