The best-known definition of tyranny comes from Aristotle's Politics: "Any sole ruler, who is not required to give an account of himself, and who rules over subjects all equal or superior to himself to suit his own interest and not theirs, can only be exercising a tyranny".
Richard L. Armitage, who as deputy secretary of state is Mr. Bolton's superior, distanced himself from the speech.
He distrusted his ministers, mainly because he felt them to be intellectually superior to himself and feared they sought to usurp his sovereign prerogatives.
In further contributions, Goldenweiser in 1915 16 and 1918 criticized Lang, Frazer, and Durkheim and insisted that totemism had nothing to do with religion; he held instead that man in no way viewed his totem as superior to himself or as a deified being but viewed it as his friend and equal.
Jefferson, he writes, claims that "the male orang-utan prefers the female black, as being of an order superior to himself; and for the same reason, the negro shows a decided preference in favor of the whites" — a notion he may have picked up "from some French traveler".
And there is indeed a great moment in one of his live television performances, in which Oliver calls a pizza shop and orders a pizza, then sets out to make a superior one himself, finishing before the delivery man shows up at the set.
#SexHarassment should be confined to situations where superior imposes himself on subordinate who feels unable to complain because of power of perp or feared consequences to victim's employment.
Being Indian myself, and having gone through a path similar to D'Souza's in my own life, I feel that I can answer this question with some authority, and the answer is pretty simple: if there is one thing that D'Souza clearly wants more than anything else, it is the approval of those who he believes are superior to himself and the poor, less advanced country that he has left behind.
Four years after that, David Brannigan, the police officer who had shot dead Eugene Toman – and who believed he had been hung out to dry by his superiors – shot himself.
And Saban proved himself superior again, writes Pat Forde on Yahoo.com, outwitting Les Miles at every turn.
