“Power constrained is but a glorious slave.”
Canto V, stanza 5 (tr. Fairfax)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
Original
Non fia l'arbitrio suo per altro servo.
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Torquato Tasso 94
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“They flat-out lie, with no higher power to constrain them, because they are gods.”
2003, Treason : Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism (2003)
Context: Conservatives believe man was created in God's image, while liberals believe they are gods. All of the behavioral tics of the liberals proceed from their godless belief that they can murder the unborn because they, the liberals, are themselves gods. They try to forcibly create "equality" through affirmative action and wealth redistribution because they are gods. They flat-out lie, with no higher power to constrain them, because they are gods. They adore pornography and the mechanization of sex because man is just an animal, and they are gods. They revere the U. N. and not the U. S. because they aren't Americans — they are gods.
“A despotic power makes slaves.”
Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)
“The vision of the gods without the power of the gods. What a terrible gift.A glorious gift.”
Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)
“In life, for one reason or another, we are all slaves of power.”
Original: (it) Nella vita, per un motivo o per un altro, siamo tutti schiavi del potere.
Source: prevale.net
Niewolnik marzy o wolności, człowiek wolny o bogactwie, bogacz o władzy, a władca o wolności.
Aphorisms. Magnum in Parvo (2000)
“Flee the country where a lone man holds all power: It is a nation of slaves.”
Though there might be some published translation of such a statement, there is as yet no published source located for this, and it resembles the remark of Maximilien Robespierre, as quoted in Robespierre (1935) by James Matthew Thompson, p. 135: "There is one thing more despicable than a tyrant — it is a nation of slaves."
Source: Archivo del Libertador https://web.archive.org/web/20170922093736/http://archivodellibertador.gob.ve/, document N° 565; Pérez Vila, Manuel (compilator, 2009), Simón Bolívar. Doctrina del Libertador, p. 45, ISBN 978-980-276-474-7. note: Second Republic of Venezuela (1814)
Source: Give Me Liberty! (1998), Ch. 9 : Empowering the Self, p. 117
