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
- There, she thought, was the ultimate goal of all that loose academic prattle which businessmen had ignored for years, the goal of all the slipshod definitions, the sloppy generalities, the soupy abstractions, 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 accep†
Chpt 3.5
Definition:
harsh and unjust rule