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From year to year, day after day, the course of events convinces me that people by nature are able to get along only with a certain amount of freedom, and since they will be given a large amount, they themselves will take care to part with it and organize a new form of tyranny.

Better death than tyranny.

Tyranny begets violence, and living beings are toys in the hands of the gods. For their pleasure, the gods force them to arrange battles, spin them as they want. They love ballets of fire and death.

Nations do not thrive under tyrants. They do not make wonderful discoveries when all their strength is thrown into it in order to survive, they do not come up with anything new, when a mistake is punished by the hooves of the carcadann.

Socialism is a well-thought-out tyranny of the most insignificant and stupid, that is, superficial, envious, three-quarters of the actors.

Instinct creates its tyrants and orders us to rebel against them.

Finally one! Only occasionally the noise of belated tired fiacre can be heard from the street. There are several hours of silence, if not rest, ahead. Finally! The tyranny of human faces has receded, and I can only suffer because of myself.

The dictatorship of the liberals, the tyranny of the liberals,
The commissars of liberal ideals were brutal, -
There is something in the atrocity of the liberals from the White Sea canals,
There is something about the atrocities of liberals from torture cellars.
The dictatorship of the liberals, the tyranny of the liberals,
The liberal Gestapo: whoever is not with them is nowhere to be found!..
There is something about the atrocity of the liberals from the camp ambals,
Crocodiles are creative, effective in that environment.
The dictatorship of the liberals, the tyranny of the liberals,
Their shouts, promises of massacres, -
There is something about the atrocity of the liberals from the torture cellars,
Where Russia will be dealt with, the skin will be torn alive.

Boris Ioselevich

In his article "Tyranny and Wisdom" (1950), A. Kojève distinguishes between two types of tyranny: tyranny, the ideal of which is given only in the form of utopia and which is carried out exclusively for the benefit of one social class, and tyranny, the ideal of which is given in the form of an idea acting, leading to social transformations, and which is carried out in view of the universal (national, imperial, humanistic) horizon. Is it possible today, many centuries after Xenophon completed the treatise Hieron, that a "popular and enlightened" tyranny is no longer as just a utopian project? This is the question posed to us by Kojève.

A. Kojeve's article "Tyranny and Wisdom" is a review of the book "On Tyranny" (1948) by the influential American political thinker L. Strauss (1899-1973). The review is devoted not only to the assessment of the historical adequacy of the Strauss reconstruction of Xenophon's views on the nature of tyranny, set forth in the treatise "Hieron", but also to the classical philosophical problem of the relationship between a philosopher and political power as such.

To call a tyrant a tyrant has always been dangerous. But today is no less dangerous to call a slave a slave.

I can provide a definition that will help You. The cold war is different from any other form of competition, the fact that the result of the cold war is the attempt to change the ruling system. So if You do not aim to overthrow the ruling class and changing the system of governance and changes in the internal structure of the country,
You may have competition. When America is directly declares that China is the enemy because he scary the Communist party, and the people of China must be freed from pressure when directly declared that Russia is ruled by a terrible dictatorship and tyranny, and the people of Russia should be free, as they say, here all is clear.

On the question of what he saw the most amazing, Thales said: "a Tyrant in old age."