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Government is at best a petulant servant and at worst a tyrannical master. — George Washington

Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution. — Elizabeth Wein

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. — Thomas Jefferson

Politics doesn't align with emotions. An emotional politician is most likely to be a tyrannical leader. — Henry Johnson Jr

Seek justice from tyrannical governments not with your hat in your hands but with a rifle in your fist. — Emiliano Zapata

Rousseau pounced. Men who dislike cats were tyrannical: They do not like cats because the cat is free and will never consent to become a slave. — Robert Zaretsky

Government has hardened into a tyrannical monopoly, and the human race in general becomes as absolutely property as beasts in the plow. — John Dickinson

There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife. — Stephen Spender

My God, these Feeling types! ... Sensitive people are just tyrannical people - everybody else has to adapt to them. — Marie-Louise Von Franz

As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master. — Robert Genn

If you feel driven to feed the poor, get your checkbook out and keep your tyrannical mouth shut about it. — Lewis Goldberg

The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence. — Mary Astell

Tsars were autocrats, often tyrannical, who held total control over everything and everyone in Russia, — Roy A. Adkins

I think forcing people to uncover their head is as tyrannical as forcing them to cover it. — Mustafa Akyol

Yes, from drinking too much beer and generally being a tyrannical egomaniac. — Sarah Dalton

Growing up in Pakistan in the 1980s, I lived in the shadow of a tyrannical state. — Mohsin Hamid

I think the adverb is a much-maligned part of speech. It's always accused of being oppressive, even tyrannical, when in fact it's so supple and sly. — Eleanor Catton

When a nation has allowed itself to fall under a tyrannical regime, it cannot be absolved from the faults due to the guilt of that regime. — Winston Churchill

Is there any chance you'd overthrow the tyrannical Beast Lord and his psychotic consort?" "Yeah, I want a vacation." -Kate & Curran to Jim — Ilona Andrews

It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reasoning is. — James Russell Lowell

[T]he sovereignty of reason and justice is no more tyrannical than that of desire. They are principles natural to man. — Blaise Pascal

There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment. — Mary Augusta Ward

rape of a woman. One of the sons of Rome's tyrannical king ravished Lucretia, a pure young wife. She told her husband and her father of this, — Phyllis T. Smith

I felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd; I would never take the consequences of interfering with it. — Alice Munro

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. — Blaise Pascal

Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable ... they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight! — Kenneth Clark

The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts. — Baruch Spinoza

Reason is not a tyrannical God like Allah, or a bloodthirsty demon like Bhowanee; Reason does not speak in my ears but gives me ears to listen with. — Tabish Khair

Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

And yet,from the air you think her peaceful and unflustered. On the ground is a place tangled with good intentions and a tyrannical will to live. — Miguel Syjuco

Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever. — Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy is a kingless regime infested by many kings who are sometimes more exclusive, tyrannical and destructive than one, even if he be a tyrant. — Benito Mussolini

It was the tyrannical, slightly stupid thing you say after you've made love. — Roberto Bolano

But we must understand that emotions are unreliable and at times, tyrannical. They should never be permitted to dominate us. — James C. Dobson

Unfortunately, writing and reporting the truth is not allowed under Castro's tyrannical dictatorship. — Lincoln Diaz-Balart

There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people. — Anthony Trollope

Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it. — Bertrand Russell

The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty. — Ludwig Von Mises

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all. — Maximilien Robespierre

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn away all the peripherals. — Sylvia Plath

So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature. — Herman Melville

There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into when it comes to music. — Stephen Fry

The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical. — Henry George

Very few tyrants argued for the slavery of the masses. Instead, they argued for their right to protect the people from themselves. — A.E. Samaan

Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots. — John Adams