Blade of Tyshalle (2001)
“He thought about how it might be to be, say, a fox confronted with an angry sheep. A sheep moreover, that could afford to employ wolves.”
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“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
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Conrad Grebel
(1498–1526) co-founder of the Swiss Brethren movement
Letter to Thomas Müntzer (1524), as cited in William R. Estep, The Anabaptist Story (1996), pp. 41-42
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“Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.”
Benjamin Franklin
(1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
Letter to Thomas Cushing (1773) http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/franklin-the-works-of-benjamin-franklin-vol-vi-letters-and-misc-writings-1772-1775#lf1438-06_head_007.
Context: But our great security lies, I think, in our growing strength, both in numbers and wealth; … unless, by a neglect of military discipline, we should lose all martial spirit …; for there is much truth in the Italian saying, Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.
Source: Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation (2000), pp. 245–246.
“Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.”
Isaiah Berlin
(1909–1997) Russo-British Jewish social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas
“The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.”
Carl Van Doren
(1885–1950) American biographer
As quoted in Building A Speech (1990) by Sheldon Metcalfe
“But our idea is that the wolves should be fed and the sheep kept safe.”
Leo Tolstoy
book
War and Peace
Source: War and Peace
“Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.”
James Bovard
(1956) American journalist
Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty (1994), p. 333
Compare earlier version by Marvin Simkin, "Individual Rights", Los Angeles Times, 12 January 1992: http://articles.latimes.com/1992-01-12/local/me-358_1_jail-tax-individual-rights-san-diego "Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the recognition of certain rights which may not be taken, not even by a 99% vote."
Compare earlier version by Charles Flatt and Sheila Allen, "'Mainstream Values' Vs. Campus Pluralism : Campus Correspondence : The Privileged Classes Must Yield in the Name of Equality", Los Angeles Times, 25 November 1990: http://articles.latimes.com/1990-11-25/opinion/op-7188_1_american-values "Democracy has been described as four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Unmoderated majority rule means that the mistakes, the ignorance and the prejudices of the majority will become law. Minorities will be devoured, and the resulting society will be one of enforced and fearful homogeneity."
Compare earlier version by James Bovard, "Re: One Person's Impact", Usenet group sci.environment, 23 April 1990: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/sci.environment/hos-RvIO1Mw/b3f0iWMcewUJ "A democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Winston Churchill wasn't necessarily making a compliment when he said that democracy was the worst form of government, except for all the rest. Democracy has no more claim to legitimacy than totalitarian dictatorship."
Robert Lynn Asprin
(1946–2008) American science fiction and fantasy author
Epilogue (p. 448)
Wagers of Sin (1996)