I recently viewed and listened to a PBS documentary Napoleon Bonaparte, 2000
The quote below was featured on the program.
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Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men;.... Consequently, it may be repressed with impunity. Equality, on the other hand, pleases the masses. Napoleon Bonaparte
Ironically, by nature, Napoleon himself would be within the intellectual class of persons as opposed to within the class of the masses. A reason he would consider himself as a fit emperor would be his noble, intellectual mind, in comparison to the minds of the typical citizens of France and Europe.
But, of course, in order to maintain his political dictatorship, Napoleon repressed with impunity, with exemption, the liberty of intellectuals that did not support his totalitarian rule.
The elite arguably have more control of the masses within a totalitarian state than within a democracy. In general, democratic rule offers more reasonable possibilities for equality.
Every human being and human system is significantly tainted by sin. Therefore, the only truly good (untainted) Kingdom or government would be ruled, directly and without reasonable doubt, by the perfect and holy God. In the New Testament model, this is culminated in the future through God the Son, Jesus Christ. (Revelation 21-22).
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