Tyrannical Quotes
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Always that tyrannical love reaches out. Soft words shrivel me like quicklime. She will not allow me to be cold, hungry. She will insist that I take her own coat, her own food.
Elizabeth Smart -
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
Blaise Pascal
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Authoritarianism is something authoritarian followers and authoritarian leaders cook up along themselves. It happens when the followers submit too much to the leaders, trust them too much, and give them too much leeway to do whatever they want--which is often something undemocratic, tyrannical and brutal.
Bob Altemeyer -
Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever.
Mahatma Gandhi -
There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
Anthony Trollope -
The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
Baruch Spinoza -
A sense of contentment makes us kindly and benevolent to others; we are not chafed and galled by cares which are tyrannical because original. We are fulfilling our proper destiny, and those around us feel the sunshine of our own hearts.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution.
Elizabeth Wein