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Letter "T" » Tyranny
«Tyranny is always better organized than freedom»
Author: Charles Peguy
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Freedom,
Tyranny
| Keywords:
organized, tyranny
«Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Tyranny
| Keywords:
cares, enslave, enslaves, instruments, tyrants
«Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Tyranny
| Keywords:
club, disguised, fist, FISTED, fists, flocks, market, researcher, researchers, shepherds, tyrant, utilities, utility
«When you look at organized religion of whatever sort ? whether it's Christianity in all its variants, or whether it's Islam or some forms of extreme Hinduism ? wherever you see organized religion and priesthoods and power, you see cruelty and tyranny and repression. It's almost a universal law.»
«You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor»
«This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| About:
Tyranny
| Keywords:
appears, protector, protectors, root, springs, tyrant
«When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.»
«Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them»
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