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Power without authority is tyranny.


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Everywhere in the world the industrial regime tends to make the unorganized or unorganizable individual, the pauper, into the victim of a kind of human sacrifice offered to the gods of civilization.



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The tragedy of the modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in realizing democracy.



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This page presents the quote "Power without authority is tyranny.". Author of this quote is Jacques Maritain. This quote is about authority, tyranny, power,.