"It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting."

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"It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting."

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"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

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"I will have thee, as our rarer monsters are, painted upon a pole,and underwrit: "Here you may see the tyrant, Macbeth."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy."

Charles de Montesquieu, French Philosopher

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"A tyrant has uncommon moral compass."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"Everybody would be a dictator if he could."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants."

Marquis de Sade, French Novelist

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"Nothing in the Grimmerie on how to depose a tyrant - nothing useful... Nothing there that described why men and women could turn out so horrible. Or so wonderful - if that ever happens anymore."

Gregory Maguire, American Novelist

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"As a result of this greed for power, the poor is not only silenced but also oppressed."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss."

Alan Moore, British Writer

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"All terrible things are more terrible if they give us no chance of retrieving a blunder-either no chance at all, or only one that depends on our enemies and not ourselves. Those things are also worse which we cannot, or cannot easily, help. Speaking generally, anything causes us to feel fear that when it happens to, or threatens, others causes us to feel pity."

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"The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom."

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"Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies."

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"Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit."

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"That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal."

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"Virtue lies in our power, and similarly so does vice; because where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power not to act."

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"With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible."

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"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive."

"From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard."

"I will have thee, as our rarer monsters are, painted upon a pole,and underwrit: "Here you may see the tyrant, Macbeth."

"The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy."

"A tyrant has uncommon moral compass."

"Everybody would be a dictator if he could."

"One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants."

"Nothing in the Grimmerie on how to depose a tyrant - nothing useful... Nothing there that described why men and women could turn out so horrible. Or so wonderful - if that ever happens anymore."

"As a result of this greed for power, the poor is not only silenced but also oppressed."

"Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss."

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"The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom."

"Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies."

"Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit."

"That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal."

"Virtue lies in our power, and similarly so does vice; because where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power not to act."

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"There is no great genius without a mixture of madness."

"Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god."

"The physician heals Nature makes well."