44 Quotations with Despot.
- 21. Lord Byron: I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governme ... 

 - 22. Mikhail Bakunin: Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. 

 - 23. Jean Baudrillard: If there is a species which is more maltreated than children, then it must be th ... 

 - 24. Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire: If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, i ... 

 - 25. Joseph De Maistre: Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always disconte ... 

 - 26. Marquis de Sade: Religions are the cradles of despotism. 

 - 27. Walter Bagehot: So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism -- despotism ... 

 - 28. John Stuart Mill: The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancemen ... 

 - 29. Angelina Grimke: The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, w ... 

 - 30. Georg Hegel: The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and  ... 

 - 31. Eric Hoffer: The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature  ... 

 - 32. Thomas Jefferson: The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most  ... 

 - 33. Oscar Wilde: There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the bo ... 

 - 34. Thomas Jefferson: Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty. 

 - 35. Walter Bagehot: Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no ... 

 - 36. John Stuart Mill: What ever crushes individuality is despotism, no matter what name it is called. 

 - 37. Herbert Read: In History, stagnant waters, whether they be the stagnant waters of custom or th ... 

 - 38. Aeschines: Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the p ... 

 - 39. Dick Cheney: The days of looking the other way while despotic regimes trample human rights, r ... 

 - 40. Judd Gregg: We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been succ ... 

 
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