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Death is softer by far than tyranny.
Tyranny
Aeschylus

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Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.
Tyranny
Jeremy Bentham

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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.
Law and Lawyers
Edmund Burke

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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
Mobs
Edmund Burke

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And of all plagues with which mankind are cursed, ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.
Churches
Daniel Defoe

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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
Law and Lawyers
Henry Fielding

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.
Death and Dying
Sydney Hook

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There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.
Mind
Samuel Johnson

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Beware the tyranny of the minority.
Minorities
Latin Proverb

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Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing.
Tyranny
Lord Moulton

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Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.
Unity
Blaise Pascal

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Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.
Tyranny
Charles Peguy

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There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.
Mercy
Frederick W. Robertson

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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
Beauty
Socrates

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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
Beauty
Sir Richard Steele

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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
Government
Voltaire

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun