"The individual would more than ever become a mere means, t…
"The individual would more than ever become a mere means, to be used by the authority in the service of such abstractions as the 'social welfare' or the 'good of the community'"
-Friedrich Hayek
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"Soft despotism is a term coined by Alexis de Tocqueville describing the state into which a country overrun by "a network of small complicated rules" might degrade. Soft despotism breeds fear, uncertainty, and doubt in the general populace."