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Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within. – Hannah Arendt

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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny. – Edmund Burke

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The tyranny of majorities may be as bad as the tyranny of kings. – Arthur Balfour

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

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