Abstract
Un monde sans tyrans serait aussi ennuyeux qu'un jardin zoologique sans hyènes.
E. M. Cioran, Histoire et utopie
Now, despite eternal cabals in the inner clique and unending shifts of personnel, with their tremendous accumulation of hatred, bitterness, and personal resentment, the Leader's position can remain secure against chaotic palace revolutions not because of his superior gifts, about which the men in his intimate surroundings frequently have no great illusions, but because of these men's sincere and sensible conviction that without him everything would be immediately lost.
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
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