"Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss."

Tyranny, Authority, Power, Control, Suffering

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"Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss."

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"One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants."

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"The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy."

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"Nothing in the Grimmerie on how to depose a tyrant - nothing useful... Nothing there that described why men and women could turn out so horrible. Or so wonderful - if that ever happens anymore."

Gregory Maguire, American Novelist

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"From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

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"Government today is growing too strong to be safe. There are no longer any citizens in the world there are only subjects. They work day in and day out for their masters they are bound to die for their masters at call. Out of this working and dying they tend to get less and less."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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"Everybody would be a dictator if he could."

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"It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about."

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

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"Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember."

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"I've developed a theory that there's an inverse relationship between money and imagination. That if you've got lots of imagination then you don't really need much money, and if you've got lots of money then you won't bother with much imagination."

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"Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell."

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"I'm remote from most technology to the point that I'm kind of Amish."

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"Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust."

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