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«There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.»
Author: Frederick W. Robertson
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fraud, frauds, hypocrisies, hypocrisy, mercy, No Mercy, tyranny
«The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
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assassination, benevolent, good temper, government, occasional, tempered, tempering, tyrannies, tyranny
«Peace without justice is tyranny.»
«There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.»
Author: Charles de Montesquieu
(Philosopher, Politician)
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Tyranny
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crueler, Law and Justice, perpetuated, perpetuating, shield, The name, The Shield, tyranny
«There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.»
Author: Charles de Montesquieu
(Philosopher, Politician)
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crueler, Law and Justice, perpetrate, perpetrated, perpetrates, shield, shielding, The name, The Shield, tyranny
«Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.»
«There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.»
«One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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Opinions
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in so far, keep out, prison, public opinion, so far, starvation, submission, submissions, tyranny, unnecessary, voluntary
«One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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insofar, keep out, opinion, prison, public, public opinion, respect, starvation, submission, submissions, tyrannies, tyranny, unnecessary, voluntary
«Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perpetually rejuvenated illusions.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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Politics
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anarchy, fueled, fuels, fuel in, illusions, perpetually, politics, rejuvenate, rejuvenated, rejuvenating, swings, Swing On, swing over, swung, The Anarchy, The Swing, tyrannies, tyranny
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