Misleading speech is the essential element of despots, because despots need the support of the people. So it came about that what was in name a democracy was in practice government by the foremost man.”
“Whenever he sensed that arrogance was making them more confident than the situation merited, he would say something to strike fear into their hearts and when on the other hand he saw them fearful without good reason, he restored their confidence again. In his “ History of the Peloponnesian War,” the Greek historian Thucydides provides an example of how the Athenian statesman Pericles, who was elected democratically and not considered a tyrant, was nonetheless able to manipulate the Athenian citizenry:
Philipp von Foltz/Wikimedia Commons Manipulating people with fear
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