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“Taking away men's weapons will be not bring peace. They'll fight with sticks and stones, and tooth and nail. Mapidéré's is a peace supported only by fear, as secure as a nest built on a rotten branch.”
― Ken Liu, The Grace of Kings

tags: fear, fearmongering, tyranny

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“In a democracy, there will be more complaints but less crisis, in a dictatorship more silence but much more suffering.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

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“Democracy and tyranny are not distant relatives. They’re bedfellows.”

-General John James
Commandant, USMC
December 11th, 2032”
― L. Douglas Hogan

tags: dystopian, oath-takers, patriotic, philosophy, political, tyrant

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“Every manmade disaster begins when one man thinks for another. However benevolent they begin, the ultimate outcome is tyranny.”
― John Kramer, Blythe

tags: benevolence, disaster, manmade, thinking-for-yourself, tyranny

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“My response to those who still try to justify Castro’s tyranny with the excuse that he has built schools and hospitals is this: Stalin, Hitler and Pinochet also built schools and hospitals, and like Castro, they also tortured and assassinated opponents. They built concentration and extermination camps and eradicated all liberties, committing the worst crimes against humanity.”
― Armando Valladares, Against All Hope: A Memoir of Life in Castro's Gulag

tags: castro, hitler, pinochet, stalin, tyranny

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