#tyrant

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

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Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#complete #dependence #fact #freedom #generation

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture. ↗

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants. ↗

— Albert Camus

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The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

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Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm. ↗

— James Otis

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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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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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