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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from p

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle. – Edmund Burke

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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. – Edmund Burke

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The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid. – Denis Diderot

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Tyrants seldom want pretexts. – Edmund Burke

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Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart. – Jeremy Bentham

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With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows. – Antonin Artaud

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