Quote by Edmund Burke
Tyrants seldom want pretexts. - Edmund Burke

Tyrants seldom want pretexts. – Edmund Burke

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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. – Edmund Burke

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Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart. – Jeremy Bentham

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Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within. – Hannah Arendt

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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny. – Edmund Burke

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With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows. – Antonin Artaud

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Its good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it. – Simon Travaglia

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There are times when forgetting can be just as important as remembering — and even more difficult. – Harry and Joan Mier, Happiness Begins Before Breakfast

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What helped me was I had people around me to remind me to help my country even when it did me wrong, have respect for my people, my family, my nation and mankind. – Alexis Arguello

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The tyranny of majorities may be as bad as the tyranny of kings. – Arthur Balfour

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