27 Quotations with Despotism.
- 1. Kahil Gibran: They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity do ...
- 2. Ambrose Bierce: DICTATOR, n. The chief of a nation that prefers the pestilence of despotism to t ...
- 3. Ambrose Bierce: EMANCIPATION, n. A bondman's change from the tyranny of another to the despotism ...
- 4. Ambrose Bierce: REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being ...
- 5. Thomas Carlyle: France was a long despotism tempered by epigrams.
- 6. Joseph Addison: Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, ...
- 7. Benjamin Franklin: Sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its Faults, if they are such; becaus ...
- 8. George W. Bush: Are the peoples of the Middle East somehow beyond the reach of liberty? Are mill ...
- 9. Mary McCarthy: Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
- 10. Oscar Wilde: Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made fo ...
- 11. Alexis de Tocqueville: Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that ...
- 12. Michel Foucault: Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
- 13. Lord Byron: I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governme ...
- 14. Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire: If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, i ...
- 15. Joseph De Maistre: Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always disconte ...
- 16. Marquis de Sade: Religions are the cradles of despotism.
- 17. Walter Bagehot: So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism -- despotism ...
- 18. John Stuart Mill: The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancemen ...
- 19. Angelina Grimke: The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, w ...
- 20. Georg Hegel: The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and ...
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