Title: Tyrant - Wikipedia
Headings: Tyrant
Tyrant
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Etymology
Definition
Early history
Historical forms
Aesymnetes
Populism
Archaic tyrants
Corinth
Athens
Sicilian tyrants
Later tyrants
Roman tyrants
In the classics
Enlightenment
Lists of tyrants
Methods of obtaining and retaining power
Obtaining
Retaining
See also
References
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Content: "The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice." Voltaire in a Philosophical Dictionary
"Where Law ends Tyranny begins." Locke in Two Treatises of Government
Bad results are relative. Authoritarian rule might be beneficial (like with Mustafa Kemal Atatürk of Turkey) or of limited lasting harm to the country (like with Francisco Franco of Spain ). Those who list or rank tyrants can provide definitions and criteria for comparison or acknowledge subjectivity. Comparative criteria may include checklists or body counts. Accounting for deaths in war is problematic – war can build empires or defend the populace – it also keeps winning tyrants in power. "Qin Shi-Huang Li is the first emperor of China. He united seven separate kingdoms into a single nation. He built the Great Wall and was buried with the terra-cotta soldiers.