Despotism Quotes

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

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

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

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

Despotism can only exist in darkness.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Despotism can do without faith but freedom cannot.

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

Despotism and freedom of the press cannot exist together.

The worst of all States is the democratic State.

France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.

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

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

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

Nothing renders a nation so despicable as religious despotism.

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.

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

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

Despotism is a long crime.

The progress of despotism tends to disappoint its own purpose.

Fear must rule in a despotism.

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

Military despotism represses generous sentiments,
priestly tyranny stifles them.

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

A people among whom custom is altogether sovereign endures the despotism of the dead.

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.

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

Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many.