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Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny.

— Ben Nicholson

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

— Aldous Huxley

The inherent corruption of man can often bring down the best system.

— Alexis Denisof

But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.

— Waylon Jennings

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

— Henry Ward Beecher

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

— Neil Kinnock

The existing system will be quickest and most radically overthrown by the annihilation of its exponents. Therefore, massacres of the enemies of the people must be set in motion.

— Johann Most

Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.

— Thomas Paine

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

— Thomas Paine

We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity.

— George William Russell

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

— John F. Kennedy

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