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★ Tyranny & Tyrant

In friendship false, implacable in hate:

Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.  John Dryden, 1631-1700, Absalom and Achitophel

 

 

The tyranny of majorities may be as bad as the tyranny of kings.  Stanley Baldwin, 1848-1930, British prime minister

 

 

Every tyrant in history has said that he wants power to do good for his fellows.  The necessary thing is to check and stop people having power.  Malcolm Muggeridge, televised interview

 

 

Tyranny does not like publicity.  It is one of the curious weaknesses of tyrants that they want to be liked.  Salman Rushdie, PEN World Voice Festival, conversation with Christopher Hitchens  

 

 

Although tyranny, because it needs no consent, may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people.  Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951

 

 

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.  Hannah Arendt, 1906-1975

 

 

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.  Charles Peguy

 

 

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.  John Morley

 

 

Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both.  The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.  Frederick Douglass

 

 

All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.  Ingrid Newkirk

 

 

A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.  Crystal Eastman

 

 

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

 

 

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.  Samuel Butler

 

 

Beware the tyranny of the weak.  They just suck you dry.  Anthony Hopkins

 

 

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law.  This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.  James F Cooper

 

 

Where the law ends tyranny begins.  Henry Fielding

 

 

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.  Norman Mailer

  

 

I’m enjoying my life, post-menopause, so much.  It’s just so great to grow into yourself, and not be bothered with all that tyranny of biology.  Roseanne Barr  

 

 

When one with honeyed words but evil mind

Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.  Euripides, Orestes  

 

 

This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.  George Orwell, Animal Farm  

 

 

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.  George Orwell

 

 

Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.  Helen Keller

 

 

Remember, I have not appointed you as commanders and tyrants over the people.  I have sent you as leaders instead, so that the people may follow your example.  Give the Muslims their rights and do not beat them lest they become abused.  Do not praise them unduly, lest they fall into the error of conceit.  Do not keep your doors shut in their faces, lest the more powerful of them eat up the weaker ones.  And do not behave as if you were superior to them, for that is tyranny over them.  Umar, cited Muhammad Shibli Numani, Omar the Great : The Second Caliph Of Islam

 

 

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.  Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff

 

 

Whenever kingship approaches tyranny it is near its end, for by this it becomes ripe for division, change of dynasty, or total destruction, especially in a temperate climate ... where men are habitually, morally and naturally free.  Nicole Oresme, De Monet

 

 

The greatest tyrants over women are women.  William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

 

 

Laughter is also one of the best ways to slay tyrants.  The Corbett Report: Laughing at Tyrants, James Corbett online June 2015

 

The nexus of truth and comedy.  ibid.

 

Comedy is about benign violation.  ibid.  

 

 

With Hitler holding the whip hand, do you really think he would honour our liberty and independence?  Darkest Hour ***** 2017 starring Gary Oldman & Kristin Scott Thomas & Lily James & Ben Mendelsohn & Stephen Dillane & Ronald Pickup & Nicholas James & Samuel West & David Schofield & Richard Lumsden & Malcolm Storry et al, director Joe Wright, Winston

 

 

In the early hours of March 2nd 1953 the most powerful man in the world lay dying alone.  He had suffered a stroke at least twelve hours.  His guards were worried but they did not dare go into his bedroom.  How could a man worshipped by millions be left to lie helpless soaked in his own urine?  Stalin had built an empire on a framework of terror justifying it in the name of a political faith, and through it he ruled his country, his government, his party and his family.  Stalin: Inside the Terror, BBC 2003

 

In the Soviet Union his image was everywhere; he had become a living icon.  The subject of a cult of personality.  ibid.

 

The real man was a mass of contradictions.  A dictator whose position was unassailable yet who was haunted by paranoia.  Stalin used terror more effectively and scientifically than any other ruler.  ibid.

 

Family photos show a warm gentle man surrounded by daughters, son, aunts, in-laws … Most of the people in these photos would be destroyed by him.  ibid.  

 

Stalin proved his usefulness to the Bolshevik cause by his diligent work as a bank robber and agitator.  His reward was a post on the party’s central committee.  ibid.

 

He loathed the intellectual arrogance of the silver-tongued Trotsky.  ibid.

 

Stalin now had control of the party machinery; he would use it over the next six years to destroy Trotsky and all his other rivals.  ibid.

    

Over 100,000 people in Leningrad alone would be imprisoned or shot.  ibid.

 

‘The terror was organised deliberately from the centre … It was done by quota, by numbers, and not even by name.’  ibid.  Simon Sebag Montefiore

 

The circle of terror slowly closed in on everyone, tightening and tightening until it touched his own family.  ibid.         

 

Those he hadn’t killed were rotting in the camps.  ibid.

 

He man he chose to deliver the final coup was the Georgian secret policeman who had been looking after his mother: Lavrentiy Beria.  ibid.

  

Stalin decreed that the wives and families of prisoners should be treated as traitors.  ibid.

 

He had won the war and conquered eastern Europe.  ibid.

 

His family had started to disappear as early as 1938, but for them the terror never stopped.  ibid.

 

 

Critics have been harsh and yet most have stopped short of naming Underwood what he truly is – a tyrant.  House of Cards US s3e8: Chapter 34, news

 

 

When a tyrant is pretending to be transparent, country beware.  House of Cards US s6e8: Chapter 73, Bill Shepherd, Netflix 2015   

 

 

I have served tyrants most of my life.  They all talk about destiny.  Game of Thrones s8e4: The Last of the Starks, Lord Varys to Tyrion, HBO 2019

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