Despotism Quotes

Despotism Quote of the day

Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and founder of order.

We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.

Oligopoly is an imperfect monopoly. Like the despotism of the Dual Monarchy, it is saved only by its incompetence.

William: "I'm sure we can all pull together, sir." Vetinari: "Oh, I do hope not. Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions.

By giving the government unlimited powers, the most arbitrary rule can be made legal; and in this way a democracy may set up the most complete despotism imaginable.

I love my country, not my government.

Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than their preachings.

It seems that the inevitable fate of man is never attain complete freedom: princes everywhere tend to despotism and the people to servitude.

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.

Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.

It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.

The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; and the vessel of the state is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis of anarchy and despotism.

The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.

War lives on despotism and is not waged with God's love.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.

To begin with unlimited freedom is to end with unlimited despotism.

Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.

Religions are the cradles of despotism.

Democracy passes into despotism.

[the framers of the Constitution] intended our government should be a republic, which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism.

The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.

Despotism can only exist in darkness.

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.

Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one.

Government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions-a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is the definition of despotism-the last, of liberty.

The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism.

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.

The Puritans nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedim, where they could not only enjoy their own religion, but could prevent everybody else from enjoyin his.

Honor is unknown in despotic states.

Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power -- power sufficient to interfere with property.

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.

Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden.

As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.

A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to despotism.

If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.

Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.

Law And Freedom without Violence (Anarchy) Law And Violence without Freedom (Despotism) Violence without Freedom And Law (Barbarism) Violence with Freedom And Law (Republic)

The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy; its despotism in desires is called passion.

Have them all shot. I don't want any of my workers dissatisfied.

Despotism can do without faith but freedom cannot.

Humans have "dominion" over animals. But that "dominion" (radah in Hebrew) does not mean despotism, rather we are set over creation to care for what God has made and to treasure God's own treasures.

Every State is a despotism, be the despot one or many.

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

Summation of Leviathan: "The axiom, fear; the method, logic; the conclusion, despotism."

It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less.

Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.

And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and libraries of Europe, this country remains to preserve and restore light and liberty to them.

Despotism and freedom of the press cannot exist together.