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Acknowledge your limitations or they will tyrannize over you. -- Mason Cooley
My task is not to tyrannize but to destroy tyrants. -- Cesare Borgia
to tyrannize for the country is to tyrannize over the country -- Rabindranath Tagore
I would rather be my own tyrant than have someone else tyrannize me. -- Henry Flagler
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. -- Socrates
It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens. -- John Maynard Keynes
Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace. -- James Madison
My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them. -- Pierre Corneille
I sometimes think love consists precisely of the voluntary gift by the loved object of the right to tyrannize over it. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability. -- Samuel Johnson
The real disturbers of the peace are those who, in a free state, seek to curtail the liberty of judgment which they are unable to tyrannize over. -- Baruch Spinoza
As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize,... The people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear arms. -- Tench Coxe
Young people nowadays love luxury; they have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for old people... contradict their parents, talk constantly in front of company, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers. -- Socrates

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