Despots Quotes
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Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
— George Orwell
Providence has given the United States the duty of extending Christian civilization. We come as ministering angels, not despots.
— Knute Nelson
The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despots dread of a newspaper that laughs.
— Mark Twain
Even enlightened despots don't make very good teachers.
— Marilyn Wallace
Despots are elected and deposed.Laws are passed and repealed.
Nations rise and fall.
Individual liberty is eternal. — A.E. Samaan
We are a society that values a man for what he does in the world, a woman for how she looks.
— Lillian B. Rubin
Without credible communication, and a lot of it, the hearts and minds of others are never captured.
— John P. Kotter
The worst kind of poison for despots: truth.
— Kay Kenyon
Has your life gone on long after the thrill of living is gone? Are the dreams in which you're dying the best you've ever had?
— Isaac Marion
In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots.
— John Adams
I was so afraid of upsetting people, and not being liked for saying something that was not to everyone's taste.
— Geri Halliwell
Despots and democratic majorities are drunk with power.
— Ludwig Von Mises
The more honor, the more danger.
— Aesop
History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Imagination is the mightiest despot.
— Berthold Auerbach
Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject
— Josh Billings
Despots prefer the friendship of the dog, who, unjustly mistreated and debased, still loves and serves the man who wronged him.
— Charles Fourier
Born evil? I know of no such person, even in the annals of crime or in the biographies of despots. The answer here is no.
— Michael H. Stone
It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.
— Thomas Jefferson
What is funny is when you do a futuristic movie, you immediately get to be fashionable because you're creating something that doesn't exist.
— Olivier Theyskens
Every State is a despotism, be the despot one or many.
— Max Stirner
Enlightened despots are mythical creatures; real despots seem more interested in stealing money or installing their sons after them.
— Elliott Abrams
In a place like this, there would be petty despots. Factions. This was a sunless world where madness and depravity reigned.
— Ann Aguirre
The Huron and Iroquois forests are peopled by my friends; with me, the despots of Europe and their courts are the savages.
— Marquis De Lafayette
The consent of the governed is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well.
— Walter Lippmann
A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone.
— Samuel Johnson
Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.
— Jasper Fforde
Before he could say anything, "I told him; I have had my share of boys".He drew me closer and said "let me your man then".
— Pushpa Rana
Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous.
— William Wells Brown
It's hard to make speeches with your hair in your face!
— Michelle Obama
