A nation must think before it acts.
The most dangerous person in the eyes of any totalitarian regime is the individual who is not afraid and thus will not be cowed. He or she may be in prison, tortured or physically broken, has probably been labeled a criminal or a terrorist in an effort to discredit them, yet remains unbowed, unafraid, even confident. Not necessarily confident in the prospect of liberation or triumph, but confident in the knowledge that the seemingly all-powerful regime cannot make the person capitulate and repeat the lies that every totalitarian state insists upon.