#tyrants

Tyrants seldom want pretexts. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them. ↗

— Voltaire

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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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Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— Albert Camus

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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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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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Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

#apostle #common #down #here #inspired

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

— George Santayana

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