#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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Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free. ↗

— Bill Richardson

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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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Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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Woe is the mind of the common man, so easily controlled by the prospect of an ambition never to be truly attained. This is what tyrants live on and by what commoners are blissfully burdened and subdued. ↗

— Evan Meekins

#fantasy-fiction #fiction #tyranny #tyrant #young-adult

If there is a God who will damn his children forever, I would rather go to hell than to go to heaven and keep the society of such an infamous tyrant. I make my choice now. I despise that doctrine. It has covered the cheeks of this world with tears. It has polluted the hearts of children, and poisoned the imaginations of men.... What right have you, sir, Mr. clergyman, you, minister of the gospel to stand at the portals of the tomb, at the vestibule of eternity, and fill the future with horror and with fear? I do not believe this doctrine, neither do you. If you did, you could not sleep one moment. Any man who believes it, and has within his breast a decent, throbbing heart, will go insane. A man who believes that doctrine and does not go insane has the heart of a snake and the conscience of a hyena. ↗

— Robert G. Ingersoll

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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. ↗

— Abigail Adams

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How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! ↗

— Samuel Adams

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