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Aldous Huxley Novelist, Essayist
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"Under the present dispensation, the great majority of factories are little despotisms, benevolent in some cases, malevolent in others. Even where benevolence prevails, passive obedience is demanded by the workers, who are ruled by overseers, not of their own election, but appointed from above. In theory they may be the subjects of a democratic state; but in practice they spend the whole of their working lives as the subjects of a petty tyrant."

Practice Majority Tyrants
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"Reverence is an ennobling sentiment; it is felt to be degrading only by the vulgar mind, which would escape the sense of its own littleness by elevating itself into an antagonist of what is above it. He that has no pleasure in looking up is not fit so much as to look down. Of such minds are mannerists in Art; in the world, tyrants of all sorts."

Art Mind Tyrants
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William Blake Poet, Painter
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"The hand of Vengeance found the Bed To which the Purple Tyrant fled The iron hand crush'd the tyrant's head And became Tyrant in his stead."

Crush Tyrants Purple
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Woodrow Wilson Politician
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"People will endure their tyrants for years, but they tear their deliverers to pieces if a millennium is not created immediately."

People Years Tyrants
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"Each man too is a tyrant in tendency, because he would impose his idea on others; and their trick is their natural defence. Jesuswould absorb the race; but Tom Paine or the coarsest blasphemer helps humanity by resisting this exuberance of power."

Men Ideas Tyrants
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Thomas Carlyle Essayist, Historian, Novelist
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"The civil authority, or that part of it which remained faithful to their trust and true to the ends of the covenant, did, in answer to their consciences, turn out a tyrant, in a way which the Christians in aftertimes will mention with honor, and all tyrants in the world look at with fear."

Christian Loyalty Tyrants
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Sophocles Playwright, Philosopher
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"Heap up great wealth in your house, if you wish, and live as a tyrant, but, if the enjoyment of these things be lacking, I would not buy the rest for the shadow of smoke as against happiness."

House Wish Tyrants
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Steve Williams Musician
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"A headline last year, after the death of Saddam Hussein, read: 'Tyrant is hanged'. My auntie looked at the newspaper and sobbed, 'Who's going to present "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?"'"

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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"Throughout the history of mankind there have been murderers and tyrants; and while it may seem momentarily that they have the upper hand, they have always fallen. Always."

Hands Tyrants Upper Hand
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Francis Bacon Philosopher, Statesman
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"The dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such as guided thereunto ; for whereas founders of states, lawgivers, extirpators of tyrants, fathers of the people, were honoured but with the titles of demigods, inventors ere ever consecrated among the gods themselves."

Men Father Tyrants
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Marcus Aurelius Philosopher, Emperor
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"The things... which are proper to the understanding no other man is used to impede, for neither fire, nor iron, nor tyrant, nor abuse, touches it in any way. When it has been made a sphere, it continues a sphere."

Men Fire Tyrants
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