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“Time and time again does the pride of man influence his very own fall. While denying it, one gradually starts to believe that he is the authority, or that he possesses great moral dominion over others, yet it is spiritually unwarranted. By that point he loses steam; in result, he falsely begins trying to prove that unwarranted dominion by seizing the role of a condemner.”
― Criss Jami, Salom茅: In Every Inch In Every Mile

“Often, the greater our ignorance about something, the greater our resistance to change.”
― Marc Bekoff, Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect

“Nobody ever recommended a dictatorship aiming at ends other than those he himself approved. He who advocates dictatorship always advocates the unrestricted rule of his own will”
― Ludwig Von Mises, Omnipotent Government

“The only place where you can be a dictator and still be loved is on the movie set”
― Federico Fellini

“The ultimate story of success: When a nobody, who has never once in his entire life known the feeling of being remembered or respected, suddenly snaps and becomes a world dictator. On one hand it sounds just, but on the other, it illustrates the reason why a prosperity message has and needs its limitations.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“The concept of the benevolent dictator, just like the concepts of the noble thief or the honest whore, is no more than a meaningless fantasy.”
― Alaa Al Aswany, On the State of Egypt: A Novelist's Provocative Reflections

“The advantages of a hereditary Monarchy are self-evident. Without some such method of prescriptive, immediate and automatic succession, an interregnum intervenes, rival claimants arise, continuity is interrupted and the magic lost. Even when Parliament had secured control of taxation and therefore of government; even when the menace of dynastic conflicts had receded in to the coloured past; even when kingship had ceased to be transcendental and had become one of many alternative institutional forms; the principle of hereditary Monarchy continued to furnish the State with certain specific and inimitable advantages.

Apart from the imponderable, but deeply important, sentiments and affections which congregate around an ancient and legitimate Royal Family, a hereditary Monarch acquires sovereignty by processes which are wholly different from those by which a dictator seizes, or a President is granted, the headship of the State. The King personifies both the past history and the present identity of the Nation as a whole. Consecrated as he is to the service of his peoples, he possesses a religious sanction and is regarded as someone set apart from ordinary mortals. In an epoch of change, he remains the symbol of continuity; in a phase of disintegration, the element of cohesion; in times of mutability, the emblem of permanence. Governments come and go, politicians rise and fall: the Crown is always there. A legitimate Monarch moreover has no need to justify his existence, since he is there by natural right. He is not impelled as usurpers and dictators are impelled, either to mesmerise his people by a succession of dramatic triumphs, or to secure their acquiescence by internal terrorism or by the invention of external dangers. The appeal of hereditary Monarchy is to stability rather than to change, to continuity rather than to experiment, to custom rather than to novelty, to safety rather than to adventure.

The Monarch, above all, is neutral. Whatever may be his personal prejudices or affections, he is bound to remain detached from all political parties and to preserve in his own person the equilibrium of the realm. An elected President 鈥� whether, as under some constitutions, he be no more than a representative functionary, or whether, as under other constitutions, he be the chief executive 鈥� can never inspire the same sense of absolute neutrality. However impartial he may strive to become, he must always remain the prisoner of his own partisan past; he is accompanied by friends and supporters whom he may seek to reward, or faced by former antagonists who will regard him with distrust. He cannot, to an equal extent, serve as the fly-wheel of the State.”
― Harold Nicholson

“Stop obeying a dictator; you will then see that he is nothing! Stop obeying a king; you will then see that he is nothing! If you refuse the Devil, you will then see that he will shade away!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Wild animals look good in the jungle, not in the Oval Office.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“No man is a caricature, no individual can alone bear responibilty for a nation's collapse. The disaster Zaire became, the dull acquiescence of its people, had its roots in a history of extraordinary outside interference, as basic in motivation as it was elevated in rhetoric. The momentum behind Zaire's free-fall was generated not by one man but thousands of compliant collaborators, at home and abroad.”
― Michala Wrong, In the footsteps of Mr Kurtz

“There is only one thing worse than a tyrant and that is a tyrant's victim.”
― Henry James

“THE BURNING OF THE BOOKS

When the Regime commanded that books with harmful knowledge
Should be publicly burned and on all sides
Oxen were forced to drag cartloads of books
To the bonfires, a banished
Writer, one of the best, scanning the list of the
Burned, was shocked to find that his
Books had been passed over. He rushed to his desk
On wings of wrath, and wrote a letter to those in power.
Burn me! he wrote with flying pen, burn me! Haven't my books
Always reported the truth? And here you are
Treating me like a liar! I command you:
Burn me!”
― Bertolt Brecht

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced communist Stalinist but people for whom the distinction between
fact and fiction, and the distinction between true and false, no longer exists.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

“Liberty is the state of having no master other than the Legitimate, that is, Natural and Universal Laws. Human beings can therefore only be constrained by Legitimate Laws.”
― Jeyhun Aliyev Silo, To Be Tried As A Jew

“-Once upon a time, Liberty was within the reach of everyone. However, the people did not value it because they had enough. They believed that Life could go on without Liberty, and as such, the Tyrant hoodwinked the people into believing that he saved them from the danger called Liberty. And presented himself as the Supreme Savior Leader, and his newly established Dark World Order as Life.
-And people believed him.”
― Jeyhun Aliyev Silo, To Be Tried As A Jew

“The ageing, oppressive, authoritarian dictator tends to forget one axiomatic truth; the nation and the people have time, he does not.”
― R. N. Prasher

“The tragic end of Julius Caesar, who destroyed the Republic, has never had a deterrent effect on the aspiring dictators who came after him in history! Because dictatorship is a mental illness. Even if you tell a rabid dog not to bite, it will still bite because it is sick, rabies is a disease, dictatorship is a disease! Once you give authority to the dictator, you can't take it back. If you don鈥檛 want to destroy him like Brutus, never give him authority, this way you will save his life and the lives of others! The most humane cure for dictatorship is not to give it authority!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“If you do not demand better of those that lead you, you will be part of fashioning the dictator who will control you.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Freedom will always call men to itself regardless of the degree to which any tyrannical form of government might demand that men submit to its preferred brand of tyranny.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Dictatorul a 卯nconjurat Rom芒nia cu s芒rm膬 ghimpat膬.”
― Aglaja Veteranyi, De ce fierbe copilul 卯n m膬m膬lig膬

“DICTATORUL L-A INTERZIS PE DUMNEZEU.”
― Aglaja Veteranyi, De ce fierbe copilul 卯n m膬m膬lig膬

“To subjugate another is to evidence the fact that I have subjugated myself to all of the lesser things that have prompted me to do in the life of another what I have allowed these lesser thing to do in my life.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Hakuna mwisho mwema kwa dikteta yeyote!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“In the minds of all dictators, the people that they rule over should best be regarded as mere shadows 鈥� seen but not heard.”
― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

“For the people of any nation, the death of their dictator or his fall from power is like the end of a long and brutal war. They breathe down in great relief.”
― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

“He turned even a little bit more, still trying to protect his back. She was faster, much faster.
- You have the wings, Demon? - the Witch chuckled.
- No!!!!! - The apocalyptic scream - It's not me!!!!
- Michael...
Only then he struck. The powerful wave knocks down down the Witch and her son' lands. In the powerful storms and earthquakes. In hunger and slavery. With the plagues. It was supposed to be 30 days. It was supposed to be never. The wings...”
― Eve Janson, The Witching Runes 3: The Rider of Black Dragon

“Solemnly, for once looking a little awed, a little like a small-town boy on Broadway, Windrip took the oath, administered by the Chief Justice (who disliked him very much indeed) and, edging even closer to the microphone, squawked, "My fellow citizens, as the President of the United States of America, I want to inform you that the real New Deal has started right this minute, and we're all going to enjoy the manifold liberties to which our history entitles us鈥攁nd have a whale of a good time doing it! I thank you!"

That was his first act as President. His second was to take up residence in the White House, where he sat down in the East Room in his stocking feet and shouted at Lee Sarason, "This is what I've been planning to do now for six years! I bet this is what Lincoln used to do! Now let 'em assassinate me!"

His third, in his role as Commander-in-Chief of the Army, was to order that the Minute Men be recognized as an unpaid but official auxiliary of the Regular Army, subject only to their own officers, to Buzz, and to High Marshal Sarason; and that rifles, bayonets, automatic pistols, and machine guns be instantly issued to them by government arsenals. That was at 4 P.M. Since 3 P.M., all over the country, bands of M.M.'s had been sitting gloating over pistols and guns, twitching with desire to seize them.

Fourth coup was a special message, next morning, to Congress (in session since January fourth, the third having been a Sunday), demanding the instant passage of a bill embodying Point Fifteen of his election platform鈥攖hat he should have complete control of legislation and execution, and the Supreme Court be rendered incapable of blocking anything that it might amuse him to do.

By Joint Resolution, with less than half an hour of debate, both houses of Congress rejected that demand before 3 P.M., on January twenty-first. Before six, the President had proclaimed that a state of martial law existed during the "present crisis," and more than a hundred Congressmen had been arrested by Minute Men, on direct orders from the President. The Congressmen who were hotheaded enough to resist were cynically charged with "inciting to riot"; they who went quietly were not charged at all. It was blandly explained to the agitated press by Lee Sarason that these latter quiet lads had been so threatened by "irresponsible and seditious elements" that they were merely being safeguarded. Sarason did not use the phrase "protective arrest," which might have suggested things.”
― Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

“Self-egotistical bias puts me at the top in life.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Don鈥檛 think that there鈥檚 not a throne in your life, and don鈥檛 assume that you know what鈥檚 sitting on it.”
― Craig D Lounsbrough

“If a 鈥榳hat鈥� versus a 鈥榳ho鈥� is sitting on the throne of your life, you would be wise to get the 鈥榳hat鈥� off the throne. And in doing so, you would be particularly wise to realize that there鈥檚 only one 鈥榃ho鈥� that can keep the 鈥榳hat鈥檚鈥� out of the chair.”
― Craig D Lounsbrough