Ernst Zundel Quotes

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.

All men would be tyrants if they could.

The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.

The tyrant is only the slave turned inside out.

It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.

The average bloke . . . hates and fears all freedom, not only for others but for himself, and stamps it out wherever possible.

The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

There's a certain amount of tyranny in all of us to some extent, and in some people it's much more developed than in others. It's a different balance which makes us all different.

The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.

Let tyrants shake their iron rod.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

Theocratic and military authorities share one thing: they have no sense of humour.

Power tends to get confused with repression.

I fear that, tired of anarchy, you may hope at the end for a return of oppression and that you may welcome the yoke of the first fortunate adventurer who shows up, who, far from consolidating your destiny, will only prolong your servitude

Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.

… so long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.