Petty Tyrants Quotes

• Under the present dispensation, the great majority of factories are little despotisms, benevolent in some cases, malevolent in others. Even where benevolence prevails, passive obedience is demanded by the workers, who are ruled by overseers, not of their own election, but appointed from above. In theory they may be the subjects of a democratic state; but in practice they spend the whole of their working lives as the subjects of a petty tyrant.

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  Aldous Huxley

  Practice   Tyrants   Majority  

  Aldous Huxley (1937). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization”, p.84, Transaction Publishers

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• As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this.

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  George Mason

  World   Next   Petty Tyrants  

  "The Journal of the Debates in the Convention which Framed the Constitution of the United States, May-September, 1787", Volume 2, as recorded by James Madison, 1908.

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• In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.

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  Emile M. Cioran

  Law   Tyrants   Republic  

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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• Slavery discourages arts and manufacturing ...[and] every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant.

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  George Mason

  Art   Tyrants   Slavery  

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• That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant, practiced in acts of despotism and cruelty.

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  George Mason

  Tyrants   People   Gentleman  

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• The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the free.

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  Angelina Grimke

  War   Struggle   Land  

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• Shakespeare wrote great poetry and preposterous plays. Who really cares, for example, which petty tyrant rules Milan? Or who succeeds to the throne of Denmark? Or why the barons ganged up on Richard II?

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  Edward Abbey

  Play   Tyrants   Example  

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.35, RosettaBooks

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• Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of heaven on a Country. As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes & effects providence punishes national sins, by national calamities.

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  George Mason

  Country   Tyrants   Heaven  

  "The Journal of the Debates in the Convention which Framed the Constitution of the United States, May-September, 1787", Volume 2, as recorded by James Madison, 1908.

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• Nothing can temper the spirit of a warrior as much as the challenge of dealing with impossible people in positions of power. Only under those conditions can warriors acquire the sobriety and serenity to withstand the pressure of the unknowable.

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  Carlos Castaneda

  Warrior   Power   People  

  Carlos Castaneda (2017). “The Fire From Within”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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