Apollonius of Tyana Quotes
Never may a man prone to believe scandal be a despot or a popular leader! Under his guidance, democracy itself will be despotism.
Philostratus. The Life of Apollonius of Tyana, The Epistles of Apollonius and the Treatise of Eusebius. Translated by F. C. Conybeare, vol. 1, William Heinemann, 1912, p. 539.
The George W. Bush administration had a reelection coming up and this administration had raised opacity to a new high in American History.
She was a member of the opposition party and was criticizing the Conservative Government.
The Priest was the right wing demagogic radio host of his day. Virulently anti-Semitic and anti-Black, he was threatened with excommunication by the Catholic Church, which finally ordered him to cease us weekly radio show and stop the political hate.
The Netherlands at that time had a representative republic, but whenever there were troubles, there were many who urged the appointment of a strongman—usually a prince or other noble. In the Dutch republic at the time, de Witt was the Chief Executive, but under their constitution, he could do little without the approval of the parliament. A strong leader with dictatorial powers was called for as there was little experience with a democratic republic and people did not have confidence that governance in a crisis was possible without dictatorial powers lodged in one man. Even in America, there tends to be more power taken by the presidency in time of war and other crises. So the fear and the argument has not changed in almost 400 years.
Apollonius of Tyana (Ancient Greek: Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ Τυανεύς; c. 3 BC – c. 97 AD), sometimes also called Apollonios of Tyana, was a Greek Neopythagorean philosopher from the town of Tyana in the Roman province of Cappadocia in Anatolia. He is the subject of Life of Apollonius of Tyana, written by Philostratus over a century after his death.
