All 4 Uses of
tyranny
in
Atlas Shrugged
- We are breaking up the vicious tyranny of economic power.†
Chpt 2.2 *
- He can never be free of the tyranny of nature.†
Chpt 2.7
- So why should he object to the tyranny of a political dictatorship?†
Chpt 2.7
- …all claiming that obedience to objective reality is the same as obedience to the State, that there is no difference between a law of nature and a bureaucrat's directive, that a hungry man is not free, that man must be released from the tyranny of food, shelter and clothing-all of it, for years, that the day might come when Nat Taggart, the realist, would be asked to consider the will of Cuffy Meigs as a fact of nature, irrevocable and absolute like steel, rails and gravitation, to…†
Chpt 3.5
Definition:
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(tyranny) harsh and unjust rule