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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
— Marquis De Sade
Never may a man prone to believe scandal be a despot or a popular leader! Under his guidance, democracy itself will be despotism.
— Apollonius Of Tyana
It's political Daddyism and it's as old as demagogues and despotism.
— Barry Goldwater
A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to despotism.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
Despotism can do without faith but freedom cannot.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less.
— Joseph Addison
Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
— Michel Foucault
From being a movement aiming for universal freedom, communism turned into a system of universal despotism. That is the logic of utopia.
— John N. Gray
No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.
— Charles Caleb Colton
France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.
— Thomas Carlyle
Other offences, even the greatest, are the violation of one law: despotism is the violation of all.
— Walter Savage Landor
Strange is this alien despotism of Sleep which takes two persons lying in each other's arms & separates them leagues, continents,asunder.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.
— John Stuart Mill
The nation which will not adopt an equilibrium of power must adopt a despotism. There is no other alternative.
— John Adams
To begin with unlimited freedom is to end with unlimited despotism.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.
— Walter Savage Landor
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
If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.
— George Bernard Shaw
Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.
— Daniel Webster
Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking.
— Charles Caleb Colton
War lives on despotism and is not waged with God's love.
— Simon Bolivar
Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.
— Arabella Weir
Generally, I like all islands. There, it is easier to rule.
— Albert Camus
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
— Baron De Montesquieu
Access to unlimited funds by a government, not surprisingly, leads to an unlimited government.
— Orrin Woodward
Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden.
— Jean-Francois De La Harpe
Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.
— Calvin Coolidge
But I shall spare her. On the ancient monuments of barbarism and despotism I will inscribe great words of justice and mercy
— Leo Tolstoy
An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.
— Thomas Jefferson
The more the Party is powerful, the less it will be tolerant: the weaker the opposition, the tighter the despotism.
— George Orwell
One's love for despotism is in exact proportion to one's contempt for one's country.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
— Thomas Jefferson
In matters editorial, I am a believer in totalitarian despotism. Most writers are lazy, difficult, selfish, thoughtless, and unreliable.
— John Derbyshire
Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?
— Frederic Bastiat
So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
— Walter Bagehot
There is this of good in real evils; they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were imaginary.
— Charles Caleb Colton
A people among whom custom is altogether sovereign endures the despotism of the dead.
— Bertrand De Jouvenel
Have them all shot. I don't want any of my workers dissatisfied.
— Charlie Chaplin
Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
— Honore De Balzac
It seems that the inevitable fate of man is never attain complete freedom: princes everywhere tend to despotism and the people to servitude.
— Jean-Paul Marat
There was one species of despotism under which he had long groaned, and that was petticoat government.
— Washington Irving
Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate.
— William Floyd
It is always observable that the physical and the exact sciences are the last to suffer under despotisms.
— Richard Henry Dana Jr.
Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.
— Edward Gibbon
Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.
— Fisher Ames
The progress of despotism tends to disappoint its own purpose.
— Edward Gibbon
Nothing renders a nation so despicable as religious despotism.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Despotism may be able to do without religion, but democracy cannot.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
Despotism and freedom of the press cannot exist together.
— Leon Gambetta
Summation of Leviathan: "The axiom, fear; the method, logic; the conclusion, despotism."
— Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper
Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
— Alexander Hamilton
Despotism despieses nothing so much as righteousness in its victims
— Gregory David Roberts
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
— John Stuart Mill
The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy; its despotism in desires is called passion.
— Antoine Rivarol
Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by one.
— Andrew Johnson
The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.
— William Henry Harrison
I always said a good despotism was the best form of government; and I am twice as much in favour of it now I see what a quorum is!
— Elizabeth Gaskell
Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous.
— William Wells Brown
By 1776 the American revolutionaries had defined "despotism" down to the level of taxing tea and quartering soldiers. At
— Steven Pinker
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.
— John Stuart Mill
Despotism is a long crime.
— Victor Hugo
Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.
— Honore De Balzac
Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and founder of order.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
Despotism alone can provide that atmosphere of secrecy which favors crooked dealing and enables the freebooters of finance to make illicit fortunes.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Oligopoly is an imperfect monopoly. Like the despotism of the Dual Monarchy, it is saved only by its incompetence.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
It is far more important to resist apathy than anarchy or despotism, for apathy can give rise, almost indifferently, to either one.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
— Thomas Jefferson
Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.
— Samuel Horsley
Every State is a despotism, be the despot one or many.
— Max Stirner
