The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they dont turn against him, they crush those beneath them. – Emily Bronte
Ill walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide. – Emily Bronte

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they dont turn against him, they crush those beneath them. – Emily Bronte
Ill walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide. – Emily Bronte
Love is like the wild rose-briar Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly? – Emily Bronte
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
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