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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

Aristotle
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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.

Aristotle
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O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men.

Virgil
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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

Mahatma Gandhi
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Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Aesop
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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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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

Henry David Thoreau
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A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.

George Clemenceau
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Should I shoot him? He was a tyrant. He'd killed thousands.

Jon Snow
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We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandated of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them.

Carl Levin
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Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Barry Cornwall
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He is very arrogant, insulting other people and running the government as a one-man show. He is worse than a tyrant.

Sondhi Limthongkul
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What is the end of our revolution? The tranquil enjoyment of liberty and equality; the reign of that eternal justice, the laws of which are graven, not on marble or stone, but in the hearts of men, even in the heart of the slave who has forgotten them, and in that of the tyrant who disowns them.

Maximilien Robespierre
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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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Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.

Victor Hugo
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WEAKNESSES, n.pl. Certain primal powers of Tyrant Woman wherewith she holds dominion over the male of her species, binding him to the service of her will and paralyzing his rebellious energies.

Ambrose Bierce
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There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

Robert Green Ingersoll
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The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...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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From a tyrant king.

Jon Corzine
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The tyrant always talks as if he's preserving the best interests of his people when he actually acts to undermine them.

Ramman Kenoun
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It was known in the mid 90s already that Saddam Hussein was a dangerous tyrant that he had already launched aggressions against Iran, he had invaded Kuwait.

Douglas Feith
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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Matthew Prior
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When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.

Edward G. Bulwer lytton
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When man turns tyrant it is his own freedom he destroys.

George Orwell
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By doing this, he (Blair) is setting an example to the tyrant rulers of the Muslim world, encouraging them to further suppress their populations.

Imran Waheed
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The tyrant is only the slave turned inside out.

Egyptian Proverb
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