When People Don't Comply!

"Dreams of what should be, of what will be: 'This is what I will do,' he says. But to fulfill those dreams, he must have the people's cooperation. Ah, this is the point often overlooked. Such dreams rest totally on the premise that the people ..... will follow the new leader, and all will see as he sees...

Possibly the people will follow, but possibly they will not. 

"Generally, people do what they please. They can be stopped to do someone else's pleasure for a time, but not for long."

What will "..." do when people stop following him willingly? Ah, now there is a question.

....if so.......has but one recourse: dictatorship. Either that, or he will see few, if any, of his grand dreams accomplished.....Rebels who ascend to the throne by rebellion have no patience with other rebels and their rebellions....he will become a tyrant."

- Gene Edwards. A Tale Of Three 

Kings Claims

"Kings claim the right to throw spears."

- Gene Edwards. A Tale Of Three Kings 

Powers Bring My Darkness

"Such expansion of status also provides unlimited opportunity for the inner darkness to reveal itself. The lust for blood, rape and destruction is really very much part of powers attraction. It is not only that men desire power so that they will no longer suffer. It is not only that they desire power so that they can overcome subjugation to want, disease and death. Power also means the capacity to take revenge, ensure submission, and crush enemies."

- Jordan Peterson 

Desire To Control Or Not

"Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire."

Robert A. Heinlein

Silencing What Was Seen

"At no time have governments been moralists. They never imprisoned people and executed them for having done something. They imprisoned people and executed them to keep them from doing something.....They improsoned all those POW's, of course, not for treason to the Motherland.... They imprisoned all of them to keep them from telling their fellow villagers about Europe. What the eye doesn't see, the heart does not grieve for."

- Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn. The Gulag Archipelago. 

Enforced Ignorance

" But what depths of enforced ignorance were achieved by the monstrous lies of the state. Even the most broad-minded of us can embrace only that part of the truth into which our own snout has blundered."

- Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn. The Gulag Archipelago.  Vol 1, pg 242.