“Good and decent people must be protected and persuaded by gentle means, but the rabble must be led by terror.” PeopleMeanPoliticsPowerTerrorGentleDecentProtected Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“All political movements are like this - we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our own side who disagree with us are heretics, and they start becoming enemies. With it comes an absolute conviction of your own moral superiority. There's oversimplification in everything, and a terror of flexibility.” PeopleRealityPoliticalPoliticsSidesCommunityPartyMoralEnemyGenerationsHuman NatureMovementBecomingEthicsAbsolutesStrategyUnityTerrorConvictionIdeologyTeaVotingDisagreeFree SpeechSuperiorityPolitical PartiesFlexibilityCivilityDisobedienceTea PartyCivil DisobedienceHereticPartisanshipThird PartiesPolitical MovementsOversimplificationMoral Superiority Author:Doris Lessing
“The terror in which English capitalists now stand of organized proletarian resistance gives to the naturally protected craft organizations the power to receive the wages they demand. They act as they have been trained to act by capitalist society, which denies the doctrine of the Just Price, which proclaims work to be an evil and the goal of human endeavor to be the avoidance of it; which puts it up as an ideal that individuals should get as much money as they possibly can out of their fellows by any means in their power.” GivingShouldHumansMeanHas BeensWisdomEvilPoliticsIndividualGoalEconomyDemandIdealsOrganizationFellowsTerrorDenyResistanceDoctrineCraftsOrganizedLiberalismEndeavorCapitalistProtectedWagesAvoidance Author:Hilaire Belloc
“The very name of a politician, a statesman, is sure to cause terror and hatred; it has always connected with it the ideas of treachery, cruelty, fraud, and tyranny.” IdeasPoliticsNamesCausesPoliticianHatredTerrorConnectedTyrannyCrueltyFraudStatesmenTreachery Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)
“We have to fight terror in one voice, rising above politics. That is when the common people will feel secure.” PeopleFeelsFightingPoliticsVoiceCommonIndiaTerrorSecureRisingRise Above Author:Narendra Modi