Tyrannies

Examples

• But his indulgence in these and his personal tyrannies and cruelties did not interfere with the general prosperity of the empire. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Some of our best-intentioned political schemes, like reform colonies and scientific jails, turn out to be inhuman tyrannies just because our imagination does not penetrate the sociological label. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The bright and thriving cities of Switzerland have been a refuge for free men from a score of tyrannies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Privilege of certain types had gone, many tyrannies, much religious persecution. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But that is a confusion of thought, for these tyrannies are merely intrusions of the eighteenth century upon the twentieth. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Tyrannies and race hatred, national rivalries, sex problems, the difficulties of artistic endeavor, all failures, crimes, vices--there is not one which he will not relate to private capitalism. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Well, he said, have you never heard that forms of government differ; there are tyrannies, and there are democracies, and there are aristocracies? Plato. The Republic.

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