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Tyranny always relies on tactics, and democracy on strategy. That is why an individual dictator always has a chance of success, but his cause is doomed to failure.

“Both the one and the other issue laws, but then the autocrat executes them, and the tyrant violates them.”

I want to make an appeal and support everyone in the world who believes in the values of tolerance, freedom, democracy, humanism, to all those who are persecuted by tyranny and dictatorships.

If tyranny comes to the United States, it will come from people who fear freedom and who firmly believe that the state must restrict all those essential rights that make America America.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny that is sincerely exercised for the benefit of its victims is perhaps the most cruel. It is better to live under the rule of robber barons than under the rule of all-powerful moral people. The cruelty of a robber baron can sometimes doze off, his greed can at some point be quenched; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their conscience. They may be more likely to go to heaven, but at the same time they are more likely to create hell on earth. This very kindness is unbearably offensive. To be "cured" against one's will, and to be cured of something that we do not consider a disease, is to be placed on the same level with unintelligent children, or those who will never achieve sentience; it means falling into the same category as babies, imbeciles and pets.

When you control a group with fear, its rank and file members lose trust in each other. The more fear, the less trust. Anger and resentment against the tyrant is turned against those who should be allies, so that the spark of rebellion cannot flare up. Everyone just wants to keep their own safety, their only goal is to avoid punishment, and they start to spy on each other.

Slaves create tyrants.

Absolute power is not protection, but tyranny.

You, in general, remember - there is no monarchy in the sublunar world. There are two forms of power - tyranny and anarchy. And in the West now there is one perversion. The foundation of their democracy is the belief that a herd of donkeys can be smarter than a single drover. Their very democracy is the belief that a herd of donkeys can be controlled by several drivers, but in reality everything is one hypocrisy, because one herd has one driver, otherwise, you yourself understand - confusion. Another thing is when donkeys finally become people, but before that even the great-grandchildren of our descendants will not live.

Every tyrant must know the size of his neck.

The dream of order breeds tyranny, the dream of beauty breeds monsters and violence.

The tyrant is destined to fall.

The most terrible thing about our tormentor was the discrepancy between the initial impression of him and his essence. When we met Victor, we could not suspect him of a real tyrant. When he and Alexei offered to give us a lift, he seemed an ordinary, slightly awkward uncle who had never offended anyone in his life. But when we really got to know him, a completely different person opened up to us. If he wanted something, he became completely ruthless and was capable of anything to achieve his goal.