People may start out with an initial prejudice against tyrants; but when tyrants or would-be tyrants treat them to adrenalin-releasing propaganda about the wickedness of their enemies—particularly of enemies weak enough to be persecuted—they are ready to follow him with enthusiasm.
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited [Bookshop, Amazon, Publisher]
Pax Hominibus Bonae Voluntatis by Aleister Crowley in International, Dec 1917.
“We can justify the existence of President Wilson in keeping us out of war, making the world safe for democracy, and all these nice things which he does so splendidly; and we can also justify the existence of the monster, tyrant, assassin and religious maniac invented by the New York papers and labeled William.” [via]