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 George Herbert quotes 
Suggest Revision: A tyrant is most tyrant to himself
 
 Philip Pullman quotes 
Suggest Revision: 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.
 
 Mahatma Gandh quotes 
Suggest Revision: The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me.
 
 George Santayana quotes 
Suggest Revision: Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them
 
 Hugo Black quotes 
 Speech quotes   Revolution quotes   Constitution quotes 
Suggest Revision: The Framers [of the Constitution] knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.
 
 Theodore Roosevelt quotes 
 Suffering quotes 
Suggest Revision: The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities
 
 Albert Camus quotes 
Suggest Revision: The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience
 
 William Penn quotes 
 God quotes   Men quotes 
Suggest Revision: Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants
 
 Edmund Burke quotes 
 Law And Lawyers quotes 
Suggest Revision: Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
 
 Marshall McLuhan quotes 
Suggest Revision: 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.
 
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Tyranny can be defined as a cruel and oppressive government or rule. It is the government or authority of a tyrant where the country is governed by an absolute ruler and his arbitrary or despotic exercise of power over the subjects and others, is not authorized by law or justice or is not requisite for the purposes of government. According to Plato, “Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.” In a tyranny the despot or the dictator is omnipotent, the subjects have to abide by him, hence the national cause is lost and the commoners suffer. No fundamental rights are guaranteed to the citizens of a tyranny. Some of the famous despots or tyrants of the twentieth century are Muamar el-Gaddafi of Libya, Adolf Hitler of Germany, Benito Mussolini of Italy and Saddam Hussein of Iraq. In the words of Edmund Burke, “Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.”
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