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tyrants
«A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.»
Author: Abraham J. Heschel
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Age,
Elderly,
Respect,
Testing
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«Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.»
«Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.»
«All men would be tyrants if they could.»
Author: Daniel Defoe
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tyrants
«Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
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«Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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Friendship
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abject, commerce, disinterested, equals, intercourse, slaves, tyrants
«Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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Force
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attracts, invariable, low, morality, scoundrels, succeeded, tyrants
«Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.»
Author: Socrates
(Philosopher)
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Children,
Parents
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contradict, food, gobble, Gobbles, parents, teachers, tyrannize, tyrannizes, tyrants