Despotism Quotations

Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate.

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

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

Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.

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

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

The progress of despotism tends to disappoint its own purpose.

It's political Daddyism and it's as old as demagogues and despotism.

Despotism can do without faith but freedom cannot.

Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by one.

Throwing off despotism and tyranny is our history and part of our national identity - something in which we can take incredible pride.

EMANCIPATION, n. A bondman's change from the tyranny of another to the despotism of himself.He was a slave: at word he went and came; His iron collar cut him to the bone. Then Liberty erased his owner's name, Tightened the rivets and inscribed his own. --G.J.

At its best, management theory is part of the democratic promise of America. It aims to replace the despotism of the old bosses with the rule of scientific law. It offers economic power to all who have the talent and energy to attain it.

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

Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.

No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.

The leading princes are the most servile tools of English despotism. . . . The native princes are the stronghold of the present abominable English system.

Fear must rule in a despotism.

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

The despotism of custom is on the wane. We are not content to know that things are; we ask whether they ought to be.

Despotism can only exist in darkness.

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

The worst of all States is the democratic State.

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

There was one species of despotism under which he had long groaned, and that was petticoat government.

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

Other offences, even the greatest, are the violation of one law: despotism is the violation of all.

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.

All men are created equal, except Negroes.

Generally, I like all islands. There, it is easier to rule.

What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and fallacious.

Democracy passes into despotism.

Military despotism represses generous sentiments, priestly tyranny stifles them.

Nothing renders a nation so despicable as religious despotism.

France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.

Despotism is a long crime.

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