Wednesday, 9 September 2020

Ideas vs. despots

Last night I came across this interesting statement in "The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam" (Amazon), by Barbara  Tuchman, who also wrote "The Guns of August" (Amazon; my review here):

"Prison does not silence ideas whose time has come, a fact that generally escapes despots, who by nature are rulers of little wisdom." 


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