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Despotism Quotes

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

Authors on Despotism Quotes: John Stuart Mill Walter Savage Landor Napoleon Bonaparte James Madison Arabella Weir Elizabeth Cady Stanton Karl Marx Pierre Corneille Thomas Carlyle Frederic Bastiat Artemas Ward Charlie Chaplin Georg C. Lichtenberg Baron de Montesquieu Simon Bolivar Fyodor Dostoevsky Walt Whitman Bertrand de Jouvenel Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Barry Goldwater Richard Henry Dana, Jr. Alexis de Tocqueville Leon Gambetta Abraham Lincoln Lajos Kossuth Max Stirner Washington Irving Andrew Johnson George Washington Edward Gibbon Honore de Balzac Victor Hugo
2.
War lives on despotism and is not waged with God's love.
Simon Bolivar

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

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

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Despotism can only exist in darkness.
James Madison

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

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

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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.
Artemas Ward

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Honor is unknown in despotic states.
Baron de Montesquieu

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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.
Abraham Lincoln

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Despotism can do without faith but freedom cannot.
Alexis de Tocqueville

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

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

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

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Despotism and freedom of the press cannot exist together.
Leon Gambetta

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The worst of all States is the democratic State.
Pierre Corneille

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France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.
Thomas Carlyle

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

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

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

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

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Nothing renders a nation so despicable as religious despotism.
Napoleon Bonaparte

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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.
George Washington

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

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Despotism is a long crime.
Victor Hugo

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The progress of despotism tends to disappoint its own purpose.
Edward Gibbon

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

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It is always observable that the physical and the exact sciences are the last to suffer under despotisms.
Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

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Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

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Fear must rule in a despotism.
Lajos Kossuth

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

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Military despotism represses generous sentiments,
priestly tyranny stifles them.
Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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

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