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People who cannot restrain their own baser instincts, who cannot treat one another with civility, are not capable of self-government... without virtue, a society can be ruled only by fear, a truth that tyrants understand all too well

Charles Colson
Government, Self, Tyrants
Charles W. Colson, Nancy Pearcey (1999). “How Now Shall We Live?”, p.373, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
People who cannot restrain their own baser instincts, who cannot treat one another with civility, are not capable of self-government... without virtue, a society can be ruled only by fear, a truth that tyrants