"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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"A tyrant has uncommon moral compass."

Toba Beta, Indonesian 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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"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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"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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"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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"Government today is growing too strong to be safe. There are no longer any citizens in the world there are only subjects. They work day in and day out for their masters they are bound to die for their masters at call. Out of this working and dying they tend to get less and less."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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"Everybody would be a dictator if he could."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about."

Pat Robertson, American Clergyman

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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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"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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"A tyrant has uncommon moral compass."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Government today is growing too strong to be safe. There are no longer any citizens in the world there are only subjects. They work day in and day out for their masters they are bound to die for their masters at call. Out of this working and dying they tend to get less and less."

"Everybody would be a dictator if he could."

"It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about."

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

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

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"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."

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"We shall learn the qualities of governments in the same way as we learn the qualities of individuals, since they are revealed in their deliberate acts of choice; and these are determined by the end that inspires them."