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Tyrants Quotes by Aldous Huxley
- Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant.
- The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No,…
- 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…
- The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
- A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of…
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- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. — Abigail Adams
- Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. — Mikhail Bakunin
- Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart. — Honore de Balzac
- The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a… — John Adams
- How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! — Samuel Adams
- Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart. — Jeremy Bentham
- The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means. — Georges Bernanos
- The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations. — Ambrose Bierce
- Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure. — Ambrose Bierce