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41 " The slaves of today will become the tyrants of tomorrow--the proletariat overthrows the hegemon to become the hegemon itself, only to be eventually overthrown by a proto-hegemon that will in turn lose its position. It is this dizzying cycle that keeps humanity chasing the tail it lost millennia ago "
― Miguel Syjuco
42 " Laughter is an anarchic blasphemy. Tyrants are wise to fear it. "
― David Mitchell
43 " Probably no country was ever ruled by so mean a class of tyrants as, with a few noble exceptions, are the editors of the periodical press in this country. And as they live and rule only by their servility, and appealing to the worst, and not the better nature of man, the people who read them are in the condition of the dog that returns to his vomit. "
― Henry David Thoreau , Slavery in Massachusetts
44 " Why independence, if the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow? "
― José Rizal , El Filibusterismo (Noli Me Tangere, #2)
45 " Success makes tyrants of most of the humankind; making us forget basic courtesy, and being kind. "
46 " Voldemort himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back! "
― J.K. Rowling , Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
47 " Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants it is the creed of slaves. "
48 " Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. "
49 " Truth ever lovely - since the world began The foe of tyrants and the friend of man. "
50 " 'Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss. "
51 " Who shall resist Anti-Christ when he comes if we show such patience towards the vices and crimes of his precursors? By such leniency, we encourage kings to become tyrants and tempt them to withdraw every privilege and all jurisdiction from the Churches. "
52 " Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. "
53 " Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God. "
54 " Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear. "
55 " Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. "
56 " Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R. "
57 " The greatest bulwark against an overreaching government, as tyrants know, is a religious population. That is because religious people form communities of interest adverse to government control of their lives; religious communities rely on their families and each other rather than an overarching government utilizing force. "
58 " With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. "
― William Lloyd Garrison
