Aristocracy is kept up by family tyranny and injustice.

Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear

All government is cruel; for nothing is so cruel as impunity.

Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity.

[A]ristocracy has a tendency to degenerate the human species.

All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.

Stupidity is always a capital crime.

Men are always the same. Fear makes them cruel.

[S]ocialism with authentic, political power must lead to tyranny and cruelty.

Authority is never without hate.

Cynics are all moralists, and merciless too.

Inside every anarchist is a failed dictator.

The sullen power of great violence forged into shapes of metal is always ugly.