In times of anarchy one may seem a despot in order to be a saviour. — Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau Copy Share Image
“In a place like this, there would be petty despots. Factions. This was a sunless world where madness and depravity reigned.” — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one. — James Madison Copy Share Image
If it's a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery. — Democritus Copy Share Image
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Enlightened despots are mythical creatures; real despots seem more interested in stealing money or installing their sons after them. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Providence has given the United States the duty of extending Christian civilization. We come as ministering angels, not despots. — Knute Nelson Copy Share Image
Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots. — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. The writer doubles and trebles the power of writing when a ruler imposes… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I think it's essential for comic writers to have a hate figure, a despot, a regime to react against, and I think… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
Despots govern by terror. They know that he who fears God fears nothing else; and therefore they eradicate from the mind, through… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Prig and philistine, Ph.D. and C.P.A., despot of English 218c and big shot of the Kiwanis Club-how much, at bottom, they both… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Woman, as Nature has created her and as she is currently reared by man, is his enemy and can only be his… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
Absolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the absolute despot… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The bicycle is a vehicle of revolution. It can destroy the tyranny of the automobile as effectively as the printing press brought… — Daniel Behrman Copy Share Image
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“There is an unfair responsibility that comes with being an only child - you grow up knowing you aren't allowed to disappoint,… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
There are things to be afraid of - like extraordinary poverty and suffering beyond anything I've experienced, and climate change, despots -… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
I realized that I had granted my illness lordship over me. In viewing my depression as a despot subjecting me to its… — Eric G. Wilson Copy Share Image
In historical fact, all of history's despots, combined, never managed to get things done as well as this rambunctious, self-critical civilization of… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Someone recently pointed out how much Barack Obama's style and strategies resemble those of Latin American charismatic despots - the takeover of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
There is something very consistent about governance in the Arab world. Among the Arab countries today in which there is a modicum… — Michael Totten 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
The problem with Antigone is that she stood up to the despot Creon, but in such a way that she ended up… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. The manna of popular liberty… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
The consent of the governed" is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well. — Walter Lippmann 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
The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despots dread of a newspaper that laughs. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
