Keynes believed that this repressed form of aggression in capitalism, spurred on by the addiction to money-making, was in fact a healthy alternative: "It is better that a man should
tyrannise over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens" (374).
Are we living in an age in which the majority can always
tyrannise the minority into conformity?
In phrases like "let us not permit the playwright to
tyrannise over us" one inclines to see a reaction against the dominance of Yeats at the Abbey, but Robinson, of course, was one of them (the authors) as well as one of us, the theatre practitioners and therefore in a position to warn (as Vormann makes admirably clear) against the dangers of radical demands on either side.
To misquote Keynes, it is better that such people
tyrannise over their data sets than over other people.
Respected Judge Catron did his best to impose order: "Let it be once understood that the bar of Tennessee dare not fight"; whoever did so would be disbarred.(159) "The truth is, such men are too often insolent and impudent bullies, who
tyrannise over, and impose upon, all orderly men about them; who literally dragoon society, by fear of personal violence, into silence and seeming acquiescence, with respect to their conduct."(160) Despite the infamous northern duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, dueling was very rare in the North and Northwest,(161) which helped greatly in maintaining respect for authority and decorum.
After Rhoda and her mother are evicted, the grieving daughter writes a letter to her brother wherein she anxiously puzzles over the governess's anarchic reign; she attributes the governess's power to "some mysterious cause" that "enables her to frighten and
tyrannise over my poor father" even though "he absolutely detests her."(30) The governess's transgressions against the state must be redressed, and this foreign supplanter soon meets the anticipated fate of a French tyrant.
But that is one of the stings in the scorpion's tail - if you try to control everything and you
tyrannise other people, you pay for it.
Doing injustice to others through aggression against their lives, property or anything else, is dispraised in many Qur'anic verses such as the verse that reads (what means):{The cause is only against the ones who wrong the people and
tyrannise upon the earth without right.
But he could not resist adding: "We're also mindful, of course, that the best hope for Syria and the Syrian people is not an expansion of [President] Bashar al-Assad's ability to
tyrannise the Syrian people."
point, which is to
tyrannise, no more resemble Christianity than a wolf
Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's PM, said Tehran had shown its "true face" when suppressing domestic opponents and that it could easily come to "
tyrannise" other states, too.
