Tyranny offers relief from the burden of sanity and a licence to enact forbidden impulses of hatred and violence. By acting on these impulses and releasing them in their subjects tyrants give people a kind of happiness, which as individuals they may be incapable of achieving.
-The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths by John Gray
-The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths by John Gray
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