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Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time of tyranny's incubation.

Power changes its appearance but not its reality.

Sooner or later, a society of sheep must create a government of wolves.

A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.

Power is linked with war, and a society wishing to limit war's ravages can find no other way than by limiting the scope of Power.

There is a tyranny in the womb of every Utopia.

A people among whom custom is altogether sovereign endures the despotism of the dead.