We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men's reality. The leaders of collectivist movements ask nothing of themselves. That permits the altruist to act and forces his victims to bear it. It goes on and will go on so long as men believe that an action is good if it is unselfish. A humanitarian who starts with the declarations of love for mankind and ends with a sea of blood. Actors change, but the course of the tragedy remains the same. It was accepted that man must be sacrificed for other men. Nobody questioned their right to murder since they were murdering for an altruistic purpose. The believed in the perfect society reached through the guillotine and the firing squad. Has any act of selfishness ever equaled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism? Does the fault lie in men's hypocrisy or in the nature of the principle? The most dreadful butchers were the most sincere.
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
The common good of a collective - a race, a class, a state - was the claim and justification of every tyranny ever established over men. Socialism always fails, the United States remains a beacon of hope and freedom for the world, and it is imperative that we stand with the people of Cuba in their fight against tyranny and oppression. Hither have they fled, not from the tender embraces of the mother, but from the cruelty of the monster and it is so far true of England, that the same tyranny which drove the first emigrants from home, pursues their descendants still. This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. The tyranny o’ the open night’s too rough Subjects him from without to violent lords Suspicions dispose kings to tyranny, and husbands to jealousy. Th’untimely emptying of the happy throne, The cities fell often under tyrannies, which spring naturally out of popular governments. Sole reigning holds the tyranny of heav’n. Who now triumphs, and, in th’ excess of joy, Absolute monarchy imperiously administered. Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition:Įtymology: tyrannis, Latin τυραννὶς tyrannie, Fr.
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