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“A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.”

Believe Hands Moving Religion Politics Sides Atheism Subjects Historical Atheist Appearance Tyranny Devotion Treatment Illegal Tyrants Rulers Pious Uncommon Atheistic

Author:Aristotle

“Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.”

People Politics Arms Philosophical Historical Tyrants Amendments Second Amendment Mistrust Right To Bear Arms Bearing Arms Oligarchy

Book:On Man in the Universe

Source: On Man in the Universe

“The universal methodology of the tyrant is always incrementalism.”

Politics Universal Tyrants Methodology Incrementalism

Author:Derek R. Audette

“A magistrate is not a father; he must be just and severe. Only tyrants are fathers.”

Father Politics Power Tyrants Severe Magistrates

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”

Source: God in the Dock

“Some have said that it is not the business of private men to meddle with government--a bold and dishonest saying, which is fit to come from no mouth but that of a tyrant or a slave. To say that private men have nothing to do with government is to say that private men have nothing to do with their own happiness or misery; that people ought not to concern themselves whether they be naked or clothed, fed or starved, deceived or instructed, protected or destroyed.”

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Author:Cato the Younger

“So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.”

“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.”

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Book:Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization

Source: Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization

“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

“The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.”

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Book:Papers and Journals

Source: Papers and Journals

“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.”

Political Politics Freedom Revolution Capitalism Remains Slave Ancient Communism Greek Owners Republic Communist Tyrants Individualism Capitalist Ancient Greek Slave Owners

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.”

Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis