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No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands o

No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets. – Edward Abbey

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The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other – instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals. – Edward Abbey

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Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best. – Edward Abbey

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Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing. – Edward Abbey

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No nation, no matter how enlightened, can endure criminal violence. If we cannot control it, we are admitting to the world and to ourselves that our laws are no more than a facade that crumbles when the winds of crisis rise. – Alan Biole

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

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Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart. – Jeremy Bentham

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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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