Elias Canetti Quote on Power and Oppression

„Whoever wants to rule over people seeks to humiliate them; to strip them of their resistance and their rights until they are powerless before him like animals.“

Elias CanettiElias Canetti on power: To rule often means to humiliate people and take away their rights.
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Elias Canetti was a Bulgarian-British writer and Nobel laureate in literature.

This quote addresses oppression and abuse of power over people.


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Quote by Elias Canetti about power and oppression

Elias Canetti was a Bulgarian-British writer and aphorist who wrote in German and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981. His work is not easily classified into literary categories or movements, highlighting his unique position in literature. Canetti left a diverse literary legacy characterized by linguistic precision and profound thought.

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"One might still justify the submission of an entire people to a small number of rulers if those in power were the best among us—but that is not the case, never has been, and never can be. All too often it is the worst, the most insignificant, the most cruel, the most immoral—and especially the most deceitful—who rule. And the fact that this is so is no accident." Leo Tolstoi (Leo Tolstoy)
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