Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Equating brutality and despotism with leadership is not an American value. — Jake Tapper Copy Share Image
“Despotism despieses nothing so much as righteousness in its victims” — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Other offences, even the greatest, are the violation of one law: despotism is the violation of all. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
It's political Daddyism and it's as old as demagogues and despotism. — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
By giving the government unlimited powers, the most arbitrary rule can be made legal; and in this way a democracy may set… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Humans have "dominion" over animals. But that "dominion" (radah in Hebrew) does not mean despotism, rather we are set over creation to… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one. — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
The moment you introduce a despotism in the world of thought, you succeed in making hypocrites - and you get in such… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The source of the terror in Lebanon as in Iraq is to be found in the Koran and in the despotisms of… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
“The nation which will not adopt an equilibrium of power must adopt a despotism. There is no other alternative.” — John Adams Copy Share Image
Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
This [the U.S. Constitution] is likely to be administered for a course of years and then end in despotism... when the people… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay; its free government is transformed into… — Simon Bolivar Copy Share Image
He asks how the evil is to be remedied. I tell him that there seems to be little chance for avoiding the… — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
We should...be able to see that our interest would be best served not by asking the state to promulgate our values but… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny… An attempt to scrutinize men's thoughts and punish… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Two forms of government are favorable to the prevalence of falsehood and deceit. Under a Despotism, men are false, treacherous, and deceitful… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
'Fair' is one of the most dangerous concepts in politics. Since no two people are likely to agree on what is 'fair,'… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Man does not necessarily begin with despotism because he is barbarous, but very often finds his way to despotism because he is… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Call no man lucky until he is dead, but there have been moment of rare satisfaction in the often random and fragmented… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“You seem to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions; a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In comparison to the French Revolution, the American Revolution has come to seem a parochial and rather dull event. This, despitethe fact… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
If an angel should be winged from Heaven, on an errand of mercy to our country, the first accents that would glow… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
What astonishing changes a few years are capable of producing! I am told that even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
To begin with unlimited freedom is to end with unlimited despotism. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
In times of anarchy one may seem a despot in order to be a saviour. — Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau Copy Share Image
The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny — Georg Buchner Copy Share Image
Summation of Leviathan: "The axiom, fear; the method, logic; the conclusion, despotism." — Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper Copy Share Image
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