"Europeans have sometimes been beguiled by a despotism that comes concealed in the seductive form of an ideal – as it did in the cases of Hitler and Stalin. This fact may remind us that the possibility of despotism is remote neither in space nor in time."
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Kenneth Minogue
Kenneth Minogue (September 11, 1930 – June 28, 2013) was an Australian author and political theorist.
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