Hermann Goering Quotes

Clever tyrants are never punished.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.

A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of a man were governed by a beast.

You can't become a dictator through checks and balances.

Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands.

... the perfect dictatorship.

Where there are the most laws, there is the most injustice. Summum jus, summa injuria.

What are kingdoms without justice but large bands of robbers?

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.... From the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.

To live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.

Wherever law ends, tyranny begins.

They who among men obtain the chiefest Dominion, cannot be subject to Laws properly so called, that is to say, to the will of men, because to be chief, and subject, are contradictories;

A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.

Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by the use of violence by the proletariat against the bourgeoisie, rule that is unrestricted by any laws.

Korell is that frequent phenomenon in history : the republic whose ruler has every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name. It therefore enjoyed the usual despotism unrestrained even by those two moderating influences in the legitimate monarchies: regal "honor" and court etiquette.

Despotism can only exist in darkness.

Power is violence, its promise, its deed. Power cares nothing for reason, nothing for justice, nothing for compassion. It is, in fact, the singular abnegation of these things - once the cloak of deceits is stripped away, this one truth is revealed.

A country that goes out of its way to imprison the innocent has no business preaching democracy to the world.

A nation ignorant of the equal benefits of liberty and law, must be awed by the flashes of arbitrary power: the cruelty of a despot will assume the character of justice; his profusion, of liberality; his obstinacy, of firmness.

The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism.

With the tools of democracy, democracy was murdered and lawlessness made "legal." Raw power ruled, and its only real goal was to destroy all other powers besides itself.

Every State is a despotism, be the despot one or many.