Tyrant VS Martyr The famous philosopher Soren Kierkegaard once said, "The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins." ... In terms of Sophocles" play Antigone it makes a lot of sense. ... In the first part of Kierkegaard's quote, he states that a tyrant's reign dies with him. ... In the second part of the quote, Kierkegaard says a martyr dies but the image will lives on forever. ...

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