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The tyranny of majorities may be as bad as the tyranny of kings. -

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

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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth. – Arthur Balfour

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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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Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart. – Jeremy Bentham

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Tyrants seldom want pretexts. – Edmund Burke

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One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves. – Albert Camus

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