The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous. — William Wells Brown Copy Share Image
It seems that the inevitable fate of man is never attain complete freedom: princes everywhere tend to despotism and the people to… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said "Your stay with us is… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
William: "I'm sure we can all pull together, sir." Vetinari: "Oh, I do hope not. Pulling together is the aim of despotism… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“I always said a good despotism was the best form of government; and I am twice as much in favour of it… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Oligopoly is an imperfect monopoly. Like the despotism of the Dual Monarchy, it is saved only by its incompetence. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
In matters editorial, I am a believer in totalitarian despotism. Most writers are lazy, difficult, selfish, thoughtless, and unreliable. — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Are the peoples of the Middle East somehow beyond the reach of liberty? Are millions of men and women and children condemned… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control. Where ever the cause of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Democracy is necessarily despotism, as it establishes an executive power contrary to the general will; all being able to decide against one… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Toleration is not the opposite of intoleration, but it is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The distinctions of personal merit and influence, so conspicuous in a republic, so feeble and obscure under a monarchy, were abolished by… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Which is more subversive-and corrosive-to believe in altruism or to see it simply as a cloak of self interest? Even if altruism… — Frank Prochaska Copy Share Image
“Suppose that we agree that the two atrocities can or may be mentioned in the same breath. Why should we do so?… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Under the present dispensation, the great majority of factories are little despotisms, benevolent in some cases, malevolent in others. Even where benevolence… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
[O]ur sages in the great [constitutional] convention... intended our government should be a republic which differs more widely from a democracy than… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
“No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of poverty; they are still… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The faith in reason insists that the poverty of democracy offers a greater hope for mankind than the prosperity that attaches itself… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“Democracy is the spawn of despotism. And like father, like son. Democracy is power and rule. It's not the will of the… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism. — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
The leading princes are the most servile tools of English despotism. . . . The native princes are the stronghold of the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“The fall of moral civilization has always been brought about by those who were "just doing their jobs".” — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable… — George Bernard Shaw 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
That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant,… — George Mason Copy Share Image
Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
It is always observable that the physical and the exact sciences are the last to suffer under despotisms. — Richard Henry Dana, Jr Copy Share Image
Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
All such men are, or ought to be, agreed, that simple governments are despotisms; and of all despotisms, a democracy, though the… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Bookishness, highest literacy, every technique of cultural propaganda and training not only can accompany bestiality and oppression and despotism but at certain… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
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