"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” - C. S. Lewis

"There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.” - Baron de Montesquieu

"There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.” - Robert A. Heinlein

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” - H. L. Mencken

"You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.” - Walter Bagehot

"Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.” - Aldous Huxley

"The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.” - Emil Cioran