Military despotism represses generous sentiments, priestly tyranny stifles them. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“All despotism is bad; but the worst is that which works with the machinery of freedom.” — Junius Copy Share Image
The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; and the vessel of the state is driven between the Scylla… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions-a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is the definition… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations...is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly.… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power -- power sufficient to interfere with property. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
The Puritans nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedim, where they could not only enjoy their own… — Artemas Ward Copy Share Image
“Just as Napoleon was the sole authority in the state, so the husband and father was to exercise authority over his family.… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share Image
In a government framed for durable liberty, not less regard must be paid to giving the magistrate a proper degree of authority,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
We judge the Russians because they're living under despotism and we don't like it, but we've gotten into a fix now where… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“The foremost, or indeed the sole condition, which is required in order to succeed in centralizing the supreme power in a democratic… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“ Auguste Comte , in particular, whose social system, as unfolded in his Systeme de Politique Positive, aims at establishing (though by… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
... ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will tend to be ages of despotism, whereas when… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“There’s no English equivalent for silovik. It doesn’t translate succinctly because to create something as Machiavellian as a silovik requires both the… — Tanya Thompson Copy Share Image
The complete emancipation of women from the ties which held them back in the past, during the ages of despotism and ignorance,… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
The 'survival of the fittest' is beneficently inevitable; the capitalist is powerless against labor, unless the State . . . steps in,… — Ezra Heywood Copy Share Image
A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The free-trade idea, logically applied, will abolish usury; and with usury will disappear the chief bone of contention between labor and capital.… — Ezra Heywood Copy Share Image
As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
We, the workers and inhabitants of St Petersburg, of various estates, our wives, our children, and our aged, helpless parents, come to… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
As it was 189 years ago, so today the cause of America is a revolutionary cause. And I am proud this morning… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
“We may say, in a broad way, that Greek philosophy down to Aristotle expresses the mentality appropriate to the City State; that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it grew, in the mind of… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
“Despotism may be the only organizational alternative to the political structure that we observe.” — James M. Buchanan Copy Share Image
We are ruled by chance but never have enough patience to accept its despotism. — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Man is about the same, in the main, whether with despotism, or whether with freedom. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
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