Fear is the State's psychological weapon of choice to frighten citizens into sacrificing their basic freedoms and rule-of-law protections in exchange for the security promised by their all-powerful government.
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Philip G. Zimbardo
Earthquake means destruction; dictator means destruction! In the case of earthquake, you need a strong building; in the case of dictator, you need an educated rational mind, because an irrational ignorant mind always serves the dictator!
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Mehmet Murat Ildan
…egalitarianism and despotism do not exclude each other, but usually go hand in hand. To a certain degree, equality invites despotism, because in order to make all members of a society equal, and then to maintain this equality for a long period of time, it...
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Ryszard Legutko
Access to unlimited funds by a government, not surprisingly, leads to an unlimited government.
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Orrin Woodward
From this moment there would be no question of virtue or morality; for despotism cui ex honesto nulla est spes, wherever it prevails, admits no other master; it no sooner speaks than probity and duty lose their weight and blind obedience is the only virtue...
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JeanJacques Rousseau
More Quotes By Walter Colton
Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones.
If you would know and not be known live in a city.
If a cause be good the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defense of it by its friends.
Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.
