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Quotes from Shame and Glory of the Intellectuals — Peter Viereck

1916–2006 United States

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The motive for tyranny is not economics but will to power. Behind power, such motives as vanity, inferiority complex, sadism, fear, frustration, and just plain cussedness must also be considered.

Shame and Glory of the Intellectuals (1953)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Peter Viereck (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.