Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
Baron de MontesquieuEver since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
Baron de MontesquieuBut constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
Baron de Montesquieu