"A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member."
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"Tyranny knows no restraint of appetite."
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"This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half."
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"The Party is not interested in the overt act. The thought is all we care about."
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"A police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow."
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"Tyranny is for the worst of treasons."
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"The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny."
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"You can't escape your own period. Whether you take sides for or against, you're always in it."
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"The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny."
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"I have struggled against tyranny. I didn't do that in order to substitute another."
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"Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face."
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"As usurpation is the exercise of power which another has a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to."
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"Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds."
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"This is a sickness rooted and inherent in the nature of a tyranny: that he that holds it does not trust his friends."
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"The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose."
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"The tyranny of the ignoramuses is insurmountable and assured for all time."
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"With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows."
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"There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful."
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"... the public and the private worlds are inseparably connected ... the tyrannies and servilities of the one are the tyrannies and servilities of the other."
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"Dependence begets subservience and paves the way for tyranny."
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