A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
Aldous HuxleyTags: power society war democracy tyranny
Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
Ayn RandTags: education power tyranny corruption
In reality, though, the first thing to ask of history is that it should point
out to us the paths of liberty. The great lesson to draw from revolutions is
not that they devour humanity but rather that tyranny never fails to generate
them.
Tags: tyranny revolution
The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people.
James MadisonTags: liberty liberalism tyranny authoritarianism
It's all very well to put the government in the hands of the perfect man, but what do you do when the perfect man gets a bellyache?
David EddingsWe are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
Thomas JeffersonTags: liberty freedom easy difficult change tyranny government effort despotism hard
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
Thomas JeffersonTags: justice tyranny prison danger law torture
Well now," the scholar went on, "I'm just an old fuddy-duddy who could use a tan, so you needn't grant my opinion any authority, but I consider the queendom lucky that a handful of Milliners and their children lived incognito among the population during Redd's tyranny.
Frank BeddorTags: humor tyranny weird frank seeing glass scholar looking wars redd beddor incognito milliners queendom tan
In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People.
Eugene V. DebsTags: deception nationalism patriotism religion tyranny oppression exploitation totalitarianism authoritarianism fundamentalism
Under tyranny it is right to be a rebel!
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