Richard Hooker Quotes

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharoah - get first all the people's money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants forever.

It is bad to have a servant, but worse to have a master.

There is no more contemptible poison than power over one's fellow men.

Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.

A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

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

Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely

They would make fine servants .... With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.

The natural course of power is to make the many slaves to the few.

Power corrupts; but absolute power is really neat.

There are no tyrants where there are no slaves.

I think the greatest lesson that power has to teach us is, once you've had it, once you are a part of it, you're never free.

Tyrants are but the spawn of Ignorance, Begotten by the slaves they trample on.

Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.

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.

If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

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 more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.

The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.

Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and naked plunder of the treasury are caused by dictators, leaving in their wake trails of wanton destruction, horrendous carnage and human debris.

It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.