Paranoia is naturally common among all kinds of rulers, especially tyrants and visionaries.
Arnold M. Ludwig
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In examining any dictatorship, there are two good tests. Firstly, what is the relation between the rulers and the proletariat or common people? Are the rulers members of the proletariat, as they would have you believe? Do they even identify their interests with those of ordinary citizens? The truth seems to be that, no matter where you find them, the so-called proletarian dictatorships are actually controlled by a small elite who ordinarily lose little sleep in worrying about the rights of the common man. Secondly, have the proletariat any effective say in what the rulers do? In the proletarian dictatorships I am familiar with, ordinary people enjoy little or no control over their Government or over their own lives and futures.
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
Society is one word, but many things. Men associate together in all kinds of ways and for all kinds of purposes. One man is concerned in a multitude of diverse groups, in which his associates may be quite different. It often seems as if they had nothing in common except that they are modes of associated life.
John Dewey
In a captive environment, paranoia is unavoidable. Only the prison authorities call it paranoia; prisoners call it sensible precautions.
Ian Brady
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
Seneca the Younger
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.
William Henry Beveridge
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