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Letter "T" » tyrant
«Death is the tyrant of the imagination»
«There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(
Orator,
Statesman)
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About:
Atheism,
God,
Religion
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Keywords:
earth,
heaven,
Heaven on Earth,
liberty,
on earth,
On Liberty,
tyrant,
worship,
worshipping
«Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear»
«Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.»
«A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.»
Author: Aristotle
(
Philosopher,
Physician,
Scientist)
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Keywords:
appearance,
apprehensive,
devotion,
fearing,
god-fearing,
illegal,
on the other hand,
pious,
put on,
ruler,
subjects,
treatment,
tyrant,
uncommon
«Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.»
«A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(
Critic,
Novelist)
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Keywords:
Bureaucracies,
bureaucracy,
democracy,
democratic,
effectively,
governed,
highly,
modern,
necessarily,
obedient,
perfectly,
prepared,
prepares,
scientific,
trained,
tyrant
«A tyrant is most tyrant to himself»
«A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover - but will sooner or later find a tyrant.»
«Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(
Biographer,
Historian,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
affection,
chivalry,
curb,
curbed,
curbing,
curbs,
empty,
finds,
grievance,
grievances,
higher power,
lance,
lances,
lancing,
liberty,
maiden,
name,
nobility,
nurse,
oppressed,
oppresses,
oppressing,
protection,
protections,
pure,
staying power,
sword,
tyrant