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But what has been gained may be far outweighed by what has been lost: the hope that if Saddam and his tyranny could just be removed, decency, stability, and normalcy could be restored.
A disciple of the philosopher Karl Popper, Soros has promoted open societies as the ultimate guarantee of freedom from tyranny and religious or ideological indoctrination, and as a powerful weapon against rising social inequality.
Including them might add as many as 25 million to the number of those who suffered terribly as a result of Stalin’s tyranny.
Indeed, Gandhi can sound frighteningly unrealistic: “The willing sacrifice of the innocent is the most powerful answer to insolent tyranny that has yet been conceived by God or man.
At best, the overthrow of Saddam removed a threatening dictator, and substituted a tyranny of the majority for the tyranny of a minority.
Nice start, and the credit goes both to Obama and to the millions of Americans who stood up and took risks to fight against gathering tyranny.
Representation without restraint – elections without the rule of law – is a recipe for the tyranny of the majority.
With generous support from America, we built a robust community of democracies, whose economic wealth and political liberty helped us stand firm in the face of tyranny.
Few rules exist for overcoming this tyranny of the status quo.
The biggest danger to US democracy, he believed, was the tyranny of the majority, the suffocating intellectual conformity of American life, the stifling of minority opinion and dissent.
Distrust of the elites fosters distrust of the system, and the longing for great leaders who will deliver us from the selfishness of professional politicians will lead to new forms of tyranny.
The problem is that both countries, hobbled by legacies of tyranny and degradation, are in danger of losing the capacity to curtail violence.
The tyranny of pragmatism seems to mark all of the complex dilemmas of our time.
The tyranny of the urgent is never more absolute than during tough times.
As Alexis de Tocqueville once warned, a state doesn’t need to be fully totalitarian to experience tyranny.
Three elections have produced some degree of legitimacy for the Shia-dominated Iraqi government, but without a sense of community and effective institutions, elections merely create a tyranny of the majority.
That may be better than Saddam Hussein’s tyranny of the minority, but it is hardly modern democracy.
The US also developed a particular populist belief that gun ownership constitutes a vital protection against government tyranny.
The right of citizens to organize militias to fight government tyranny was therefore a founding idea of the new country, enshrined in the Second Amendment to the US Constitution, which declares that, because a country needs a well-regulated militia, the people have the right to bear arms.
Since citizens’ militias are anachronistic, gun owners now use the second amendment merely to defend individual gun ownership, as if that somehow offers protection against tyranny.
What they produced instead was an “electocracy” that, in the absence of liberal institutions, replaced the tyranny of the Sunni minority with a tyranny of the Shiite majority and a religious sectarian civil war.
In Libya, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s appalling tyranny has collapsed; the EU will be generous in helping the Libyan people start to build a modern pluralist society.
Yet the high costs of tyranny spill over to the rest of the world, in the forms of uncontrolled disease, refugee movements, violence, and criminality.
One plausible idea is regional monitoring - that a country's neighbors would help forestall such tyranny.
It was moving to witness this homage to freedom and be reminded of what tyranny looks and feels like.
But they rarely appreciate the texture of their democracy and civil society – the relative newness of hard-won freedoms and the intimate understanding of what tyranny, whether a homegrown dictatorship or a colonial administration, means to individual liberty.
It is thanks to him that Poles can be proud that theirs was the first Soviet Bloc country to free itself of Communist tyranny.
But the 1945 consensus was dealt a much greater blow precisely when we all rejoiced at the collapse of the Soviet Empire, the other great twentieth-century tyranny.
The good news is that the intellectual vacuum on the left is being filled, and there is no longer any reason to believe in the tyranny of “no alternatives.”
Situated figuratively between modernity and tradition, secularism and Islam, and democracy and tyranny, Turkey also is an actual physical bridge between East and West.
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