Stendhal quote about God from The Red and the Black - The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God
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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God
 Stendhal, The Red and the Black (1830). copy citation

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Author Stendhal
Source The Red and the Black
Topic God tyranny
Date 1830
Language English
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Note Translated by Horace B. Samuel
Weblink https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Red_and_the_Black

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Julien found him in cheery spirits. The rage of the aristocracy prevented him from being bored. "There's the only merry man I've seen in England," thought Julien to himself, as he left the prison.
"The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God," Vane had said to him.
We suppress the rest of the system as being cynical.
"What amusing notion do you bring me from England?" said M. la Mole to him on his return. He was silent. "What notion do you bring me, amusing or otherwise?"” source
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