What is tyranny?

[Votto]

 

[Timmy]

Curse you IMG! !!!

 

[g5000]

What is tyranny?

Ru Paul, for example.

 

[DarkFury]

 

[Agit8r]

It is when many people are at the absolute mercy of an individual.

 

[Votto]

“Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.”
― Bruce Coville

 

[owebo]

It is when many people are at the absolute mercy of an individual.

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Yes....a liberal....

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Our government.

 

[Votto]

“The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people.”
― James Madison, Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 Reported by James Madison

 

[Votto]

“Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.”
― Lysander Spooner

LOL

 

[Neotrotsky]

What is tyranny?

see anything Democratic party

 

[Votto]

“for PEOPLE to rule themselves in a REPUBLIC , they must have virtue;for a TYRANT to rule in a TYRANNY ,he must use FEAR.”
― William J. Federer, Change to Chains-The 6,000 Year Quest for Control -Volume I-Rise of the Republic

 

[Votto]

“Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.”
― Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio

 

[yiostheoy]

If you want the ancient Greek definition, it is what we would call a dictatorship today.

Famous tyrants in US history:

- some people would say BHO because of his executive order abuse;

- some people would say W because of his lying;

- Nixon definitely;

- some people would say LBJ;

- some people would say Lincoln.

 

[yiostheoy]

Our government.

I listed them for you supra.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Our government.

I listed them for you supra.

I cant really disagree with any of that.

 

[Votto]

“At the end of a century that has seen
the evils of communism, Nazism and other modern tyrannies,
the impulse to centralize power remains amazingly persistent.”
― Joseph Sobran

 

[Votto]

“Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.”
― Aristotle

 

[Timmy]

You think America is tyranny ?? What's the matter , did you have to drive through a toll booth today ?

On behalf of the millions n millions in this world who live under true tyranny I say FUCK YOU ASSHOLES.

 

[Votto]

“There is a tyranny in the womb of every Utopia.”
― Bertrand De Jouvenel