Word: tyrants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reasonable than mean . . . then that human unit, large or small, is democratic. . . . But if . . . [it] is greedy, if it is suspicious of everything without and credulous of everything with in . . . turns to force to hold its place and win its way, then that social order . . . must turn to a tyrant for its hero and leader." Democracy, "awkward, sluggish, often sadly wasteful," nevertheless gives the freest play to the "common kindly impulse of organized humanity," but it will only survive if the democratically trained citizen - "naturally a bit lazy, instinctively inclined to improvidence, by birthright glad to let well enough alone...
...attaining Buddhahood without first passing through the human phase. From them he learned, and through them he was profoundly drawn toward that subtle, serenely intricate theology which traces all evil to the pig (Ignorance), the cock (Ego, Desire), the serpent (Anger); which insists: ""The cruelty of the tyrant is as worthy of pity as the groans of the slave...
...head of a clan of tyrant-hating Red Shirts, peppery Peppino Garibaldi naturally did not think much of Benito Mussolini's Black Shirt". IN 1924 he called the Roman Legions of the Fascist militia "a gang in the pay of the Government" and the Legions' commander, General Varini, challenged him to a duel. Peppino refused, said the insult had been meant for Mussolini, whom he would gladly fight any day. General Italo Balbo, then commander of all the militia, thereupon challenged him. Peppino still wanted Musso lini. So he shook off the dust of Italy, moved...
...easy for us, behind the safety of the Atlantic tides, to say to an invaded country: "You are folish. You should not resist. You cannot win." Perhaps it is too easy for us to forget what freedom and homeland means, we who have not felt the boot of the tyrant for so long. Perhaps the cynicism which followed the First War has blinded us to the flesh-and-blood emotions which the peoples of Europe are feeling. And yet most Americans have heard the news with a sort of relief, a relief that the futility of the Scandinavian bloodshed should...
...Denied that Great Britain wanted the "annihilation of the German people," but said the "responsibility for the prolongation of this war is theirs as well as that of the tyrant who stands over them...