Despotic Quotes
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Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
— George Orwell
A guardian is broad-minded and understanding. A guard, on the other hand, is a vigilante, narrow-minded and most of the time despotic.
— Carlos Castaneda
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
— Baron De Montesquieu
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
— Baron De Montesquieu
Vanity is the most despotic and iniquitous of masters, and I can never be the slave of my own vices.
— George Sand
She developed a kind of disdain for her only sibling usually reserved for despotic political regimes and perpetrators of genocide.
— Elisa Albert
All great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ungracious and indelicate as generals, because they are confident of their impunity.
— Anton Chekhov
When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.
— Honore De Balzac
No one had ever accused Koko of being naughty. Perverse, perhaps, or arrogant, or despotic. But naughtiness was beneath his dignity.
— Lilian Jackson Braun
Despotic rules are attempting to deprive women of their rights.
— Yousef Saanei
The Palestinians are a despotic, undemocratic grouping which promotes a religious war against Israel, a democracy, through terror.
— Melanie Phillips
Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.
— Aldous Huxley
The superior force of despotic regimes is disarmed not through violence but through conversion.
— Chris Hedges
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
— Charles De Secondat
But in all despotic governments, though a particular prince may favour arts and letter, there is a natural degeneracy of mankind.
— Joseph Addison
We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there.
— Judd Gregg
You arrogant, selfish, egotistical, medieval, despotic, swollen-headed, dumb, idiot penis owner!
— Christine Warren
The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.
— George Mason
Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In a free country there is much clamor, with little suffering; in a despotic state there is little complaint, with much grievance.
— Lazare Carnot
