The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

Soren Kierkegaard

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Tyranny Martyrdom

Author

Soren Kierkegaard

Source

Journals of Soren Kierkegaard

Medium

Personal journal

Language

Danish

Time

1848 1840s 19th century

Occupation

Philosopher Writer

From

Denmark Europe

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Original Citation

Kierkegaard, Soren. Journal entry. c. 1848.

Current Citation

Kierkegaard, Soren. The Journals of Kierkegaard, translated by Alexander Dru. Harper Torch, 1959.

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Kierkegaard, Soren. Begrebet Angest [The Concept of Anxiety]. C. A. Reitzel, 1844.

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Kierkegaard, Soren. The Concept of Anxiety, translated by Jeanette B L Knox. Mercer University Press, 2008.

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The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths.

Ada Lovelace

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Ada Lovelace
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Scientific literature
Language
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Time
1843 1840s 19th century
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King, Augusta Ada. Scientific Memoirs: Selected from the Transactions of Foreign Academies of science and Learned Societies and from Foreign Journals. Vol. 3, London: R. and J. E. Taylor, 1843.

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Where-ever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

John Locke

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John Locke
Source
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Treatise
Genre
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Language
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Time
1690 1690s 17th century
Era
Age of Enlightenment
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Locke, John. "Second Treatise of Civil Government." Two Treatises of Government. London: Awnsham Churchill, 1690, ch. 18, sect. 202.

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Locke, John. Second Treatise of Civil Government, edited by C. B. Macpherson. Hackett Publishing Company, 1980, ch. 18, sect. 202.