Tyranny

Examples

• And you talk of the tyranny of the masters! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Tyranny springs from democracy much as democracy springs from oligarchy. Plato. The Republic.
• She loved him as a kind elder brother; a relation to guide, protect, and instruct her, without the too frequent tyranny of parental authority. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Say then, my friend, In what manner does tyranny arise? Plato. The Republic.
• Their extreme youth, and the purity of their attachment, made them yield with less resistance to the tyranny of circumstances. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It is a horrible tyranny of a fixed milieu, where each piece of furniture is a commandment-stone. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• But now my boasted independence was daily instigating me to acts of tyranny, and freedom was becoming licentiousness. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• As soon as government begins to supply services, it is turning away from the sterile tyranny of the taboo. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• This is only part of a system:--a scheme of tyranny to which I will never submit. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The common rule requires submission; and it is only in cases of grievous tyranny and oppression, that the exception can take place. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• They would have adjudged him right served for his tyranny and meddling. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Where the tyranny of the governor removes this interest, it also removes the natural obligation to obedience. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• And so tyranny naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme form of liberty? Plato. The Republic.
• But from my former knowledge of my present captain, I confess I look forward with apprehension to a long course of tyranny on board the Russell. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• At last, one monster passion takes possession of the whole nature of man--this is tyranny. Plato. The Republic.
• 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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