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Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
Barbara W. Tuchman
Time
Revolution
Every
Tyrant
Puts
Successful
We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandated of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them.
Carl Levin
Peace
Destruction
Building
United Nations
Tyrant
Weapons
Threat
Hussein
Delivering
He
Saddam
Saddam Hussein
Mass
Mass Destruction
Begin
Stability
Common
Common Belief
Nations
Region
Them
Means
Ignored
Belief
United
Sometimes I think I should have chosen a line of work where it was just me alone in the room, with the sun coming in, and God, insofar as he or she exists, smiling down upon me. Then I would have never been accused of being a tyrant, other than towards myself.
Charlie Trotter
Work
God
Alone
Myself
Me
Sometimes
Down
Think
Other
Tyrant
Sun
Would
Insofar
Never
He
He Or She
Towards
She
Smiling
Coming
Line
Been
Exists
Than
Accused
Just
Being
Where
Room
Then
Should
Chosen
I don't think I could be happy as an actor if there was a tyrant on the set.
David Warner
Be Happy
Happy
Think
Tyrant
Could
Actor
Set
It was known in the mid 90s already that Saddam Hussein was a dangerous tyrant that he had already launched aggressions against Iran, he had invaded Kuwait.
Douglas Feith
Dangerous
Tyrant
Invaded
Hussein
Had
He
Saddam
Saddam Hussein
Known
Iran
Kuwait
Mid
Against
The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.
George W. Bush
Free
Tyrant
Fallen
Iraq
The great universal literature has always had a tragic relation with freedom. The Greeks renounced absolute freedom and imposed order on chaotic mythology, like a tyrant.
Ismail Kadare
Great
Freedom
Relation
Chaotic
Tyrant
Absolute
Absolute Freedom
Had
Mythology
Like
Always
Imposed
Tragic
Greeks
Order
Literature
Universal
Because a man is placed in charge of a club does not make it necessary for him to be a taskmaster or a tyrant. In my opinion, he ought to be as lenient with his club as circumstances allow, and the less he interferes with the personal liberties of the men, the better.
Joe Tinker
Man
Better
Men
Club
Ought
Tyrant
Liberties
Circumstances
Charge
Allow
He
Make
Him
Because
Opinion
Does
His
Personal
In My Opinion
Placed
Lenient
Interferes
Less
Necessary
It's important to remember that Bush Derangement Syndrome on the left - comparing him to Hitler, calling him a terrorist and a tyrant - preceded Obama Derangement Syndrome on the right.
John Avlon
Remember
Important
Syndrome
Tyrant
Obama
Him
Calling
Terrorist
Left
Bush
Comparing
Right
Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything.
John Polkinghorne
God
Everything
Tyrant
Cosmic
About
Strongly
Idea
Against
Who
Brings
The Georges were fair; they left all to the Government; but Anne was very bad and a tyrant. She tyrannised over the Irish. She died broken-hearted with all the bad things that were going on about her. For Queen Anne was very wicked; oh, very wicked, indeed!
Lady Gregory
Government
Queen
Bad Things
Wicked
Tyrant
Indeed
Bad
About
Anne
Over
Fair
She
Were
Left
Very
Irish
Died
Going
Oh
Her
Things
Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.
Matthew Prior
Anger
Heart
Obey
Tyrant
Those
Punished
Dart
Cruel
Thy
Most
How
Escape
Yoke
Refuse
Sway
Fantastic
Your
Hard
Who
Amorous
Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death.
Peter DeFazio
Death
War
Women
Humanity
Men
Men And Women
Crimes
Our
Trial
Tyrant
Possible
Hussein
Brutal
Glad
He
Saddam
Saddam Hussein
Am
Opposition
Off
Dictator
Send
Deciding
Whether
Against
Uniform
Use
Measure
Now
My name is on the door, and I care very much about the design that gets put out. I'm sorry, but it has to be my way. You learn that by working for people like I. M. Pei. You think he isn't a design tyrant? Is Calvin Klein a tyrant? When it came to his dresses, he had to be.
Peter Marino
You
People
Care
Sorry
Design
Think
Way
Tyrant
Out
Dresses
About
Klein
Had
He
Put
Name
Like
Learn
Calvin Klein
Came
His
Very
Gets
Door
Much
Working
Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.
Thomas Fuller
Fear
Cruelty
Tyrant
Attended
Always
In 1979, Iranians carried out an illegitimate act: They overthrew a tyrant that the United States had imposed and supported, and moved on an independent path, not following U.S. orders.
Noam Chomsky
Path
Tyrant
States
Independent
Carried
Out
Following
Had
Supported
Imposed
Iranians
Moved
Moved On
Orders
Act
Illegitimate
United
United States
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