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

Tyrants seldom want pretexts. – Edmund Burke

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He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls. – Edmund Burke

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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. – Edmund Burke

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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle. – Edmund Burke

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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they dont turn against him, they crush those beneath them. – Emily Bronte

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The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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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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