Despotism Quotes

Fear must rule in a despotism.

Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.

Military despotism represses generous sentiments, priestly tyranny stifles them.

Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.

It is always observable that the physical and the exact sciences are the last to suffer under despotisms.

When men have become heartily wearied of licentious anarchy, their eagerness has been proportionately great to embrace the opposite extreme of rigorous despotism.

The moment you introduce a despotism in the world of thought, you succeed in making hypocrites - and you get in such a position that you never know what your neighbor thinks.

It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws too dearly.

Man is about the same, in the main, whether with despotism, or whether with freedom.

A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.

Ethics and oversight are what you eliminate when you want absolute power.

Access to unlimited funds by a government, not surprisingly, leads to an unlimited government.

When the Rule of Law disappears, we are ruled by the whims of men.

From being a movement aiming for universal freedom, communism turned into a system of universal despotism. That is the logic of utopia.

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may

I must admit that I feel that the best form of government is benevolent despotism.

An absolute law without hope of appeal that's despotism!

The fall of moral civilization has always been brought about by those who were "just doing their jobs".

I will believe in the right of one man to govern a nation despotically when I find a man born unto the world with boots and spurs and a nation with saddles on their backs.