The threat of sudden destruction, of unpredictable retaliation for unnamed
offenses, is a much more potent means of enslavement than explicit dictatorial
laws. It demands more than mere obedience; it leaves men no policy save one:
to please the authorities; to please—blindly, uncritically, without standards
or principles; to please—in any issue, matter or circumstance, for fear of an
unknowable, unprovable vengeance.
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