From this arises the question Whether it is better to be loved rather than feared or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together if we must choose between them it is far safer to be feared than loved.
Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
Big Brother is watching you.
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
Nature has left this tincture in the blood That all men would be tyrants if they could.
Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
From this arises the question Whether it is better to be loved rather than feared or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together if we must choose between them it is far safer to be feared than loved.
Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind tyranny in religion is the worst.
Goods which are not shared are not goods.
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.