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| so:text | The needs that are met by tyrants are as real as those to which freedom answers; sometimes they are more urgent. Tyrants promise security - and release from the tedium of everyday existence. To be sure, this is only a confused fantasy. The drab truth of tyranny is a life spent in waiting. But the perennial romance of tyranny comes from its promising its subjects a life more interesting than any they can contrive for themselves. (en) |
| so:isPartOf | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Gray_(philosopher) |
| so:description | Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (2002) (en) |
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