"The tyrant, who in order to hold..." - Quote by Aristotle

“Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.”

“All art is concerned with coming into being; for it is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by necessity, nor with things that do so in accordance with nature.”

“If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.”

“Off goes the head of the king, and tyranny gives way to freedom. The change seems abysmal. Then, bit by bit, the face of freedom hardens, and by and by it is the old face of tyranny. Then another cycle, and another. But under the play of all these opposites there is something fundamental and permanent - the basic delusion that men may be governed and yet be free.”

“There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there are not laws in common, but one man, keeping the law himself to himself, has the sway, and this is no longer equal.”

“Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of non­resistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in self­suffering.”

“I know that given great responsibility men sometimes change, but Mr. Nixon's Presidency would worry me.”

“If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.”

“The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lit under it, there's no limit to the power it can generate.”