Is the family a haven in a heartless world or is it a tyranny ruled by its sickest member?
Terrorism came to be associated with drastic abuse of power and related to the notion of tyranny as rule based on fear, a recurring theme in political philosophy.
Johnson has also written of the "watermelon smiles" of African men and mourned that Nelson Mandela had merely replaced the minority tyranny of white rule with the "majority tyranny of black rule".
Ryckmans believed that the Cultural Revolution had destroyed the beauty of Chinese culture and civilisation without destroying what needed to be banished, the tyranny of arbitrary rule.
"From Europe to the Pacific", Mr Obama said in May, "we've been the nation that has shut down torture chambers and replaced tyranny with the rule of law".
As Nathan Maung sees it, the straightforward tyranny of military rule has been replaced by the plots of the powerful, controlled from behind the scenes.
On July 4 1776, the founding fathers of America gathered in Philadelphia to declare their independence from (no offence, English readers) the tyranny of English rule.
From Europe to the Pacific, we have been a nation that has shut down torture chambers and replaced tyranny with the rule of law.
In May, in a speech on terrorism delivered at the National Archives, Obama remarked: From Europe to the Pacific, we've been the nation that has shut down torture chambers and replaced tyranny with the rule of law.
The tyranny of autocratic rule must give way to immediate reform: the demonstration of a serious commitment to change, the granting of freedoms to all and the transition toward democracy.
During her trip in Asia last week, Mrs. Clinton called the North Korean government's rule "tyranny," but offered to normalize ties and provide economic help if the isolated nation abandoned its nuclear weapons program.
