Unbridled Control Quotes

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

The tyranny we impose on others, we will eventually impose on ourselves.

Power is like a drug. The more you use it, the larger doses you need.

I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade; and that good Lord will forgive me, that's his.

Despotism, be it financial or political, is vulnerable, unless it is believed to rest upon a moral sanction.

For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.

The people are so secure under the sultan's reign that no one fears his agents.

Robert Moses wasn't elected to anything. We're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and he held it for 48 years.

[Ronald Reagan resembles:] a Turkish pasha, passively letting his subjects serve him.