#tyrant

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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Tyrants seldom want pretexts. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#seldom #tyrants #want

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver. ↗

— Lord Byron

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War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

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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

#consequences #heroic #me #ordinary #ordinary people

The mob is the mother of tyrants. ↗

— Diogenes

#mother #tyrants

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

— Voltaire

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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

#be happy #could #happy #i #set

My dad was a tyrant. He used to physically beat the crap out of us. ↗

— Dennis Wilson

#crap #dad #out #physically #tyrant