Sunday, August 26, 2012

Montesquieu: a tyrant never lacks instruments for his tyranny,

"No tyranny is more cruel than the one practiced in the shadow of the laws and under color of justice — when, so to speak, one proceeds to drown the unfortunate on the very plank by which they had saved themselves. And since a tyrant never lacks instruments for his tyranny, Tiberius always found judges ready to condemn as many people as he might suspect."
 ~ Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu

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