#tyrant

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#complete #dependence #fact #freedom #generation

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture. ↗

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

#behaves #being #care #children #culture

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 Huxley

#cease #country #democracy #democratic #effectively

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

— Aristotle

#both #deprive #mistrust #people #their

The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#either #fanatic #get #himself #idea

In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#mental #necessary #order #stuff #tyrant

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#chains #discovered #fetter #mind #tyrants

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of. ↗

— Bill Moyers

#freedom #secrecy #tyrants

Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#against #brings #cosmic #everything #god

Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free. ↗

— Bill Richardson

#been #enlightenment #free #ignorance #salvation