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Tyranny is using power beyond right for the ruler's own advantage rather than the good of the governed
Drawn from what John Locke said
What John Locke actually said
- John Locke English philosopher (1632 to 1704)
so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which no body can have a right to. And this is making use of the power any one has in his hands, not for the good of those who are under it, but for his own private separate advantage.
Where this was said
↗Second Treatise of Government (1690)gutenberg.org
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