How will this cult of personality turn out? Stay tuned.
"The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector."
-Plato
"The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits."
-Plutarch
"So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, the Caesars and Napoleons will arise to make them miserable."
-Aldous Huxley
"Communism and fascism or nazism, although poles apart in their intellectual content, are similar in this, that both have emotional appeal to the type of personality that takes pleasure in being submerged in a mass movement and submitting to superior authority."
-James A. C. Brown
"The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of free income from the richer to the poorer, as we imagined, than a redistribution of power from the individual to the State."
-Bertrand de Jouvenel
"Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else."
-P. J. O'Rourke
"At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to state this or that or the other, but it is "not done"... Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the highbrow periodicals."
-George Orwell