"Death is softer by far than tyranny."

Aeschylus · Tyranny · 1 fans >>
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"In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend."

Aeschylus · Tyranny · 2 fans >>
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"Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart."

Bentham, Jeremy · Tyranny · 0 fans >>
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"The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors."

Bonaparte, Napoleon · Tyranny · 1 fans >>
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"No totalitarians, no wars, no fears, famines or perils of any kind can really break a man's spirit until he breaks it himself by surrendering. Tyranny has many dread powers, but not the power to rule the spirit."

Brightman, Edgar Sheffield · Tyranny · 1 fans >>
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"The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them."

Bronte, Emily · Tyranny · 1 fans >>
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"Tyrants seldom want pretexts."

Burke, Edmund · Tyranny · 0 fans >>
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"Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle."

Burke, Edmund · Tyranny · 0 fans >>
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"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."

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"There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you."

Hazlitt, William · Tyranny · 1 fans >>
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