Neither a life of anarchy nor a life under a despot should you praise. To all that lies in the middle has… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Despots prefer the friendship of the dog, who, unjustly mistreated and debased, still loves and serves the man who wronged him. — Charles Fourier Copy Share Image
A man who's active and incisive can yet keep nail-care much in mind: why fight what's known to be decisive? Custom is… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
Those who disagree with the dictator's plan have no other means to carry on than to defeat the despot by force of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Philosophers are despots who have no armies to command, so they subject the world to their tyranny by locking it up in… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
A nation ignorant of the equal benefits of liberty and law, must be awed by the flashes of arbitrary power: the cruelty… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Surely the fates are forever kind, though Nature's laws are more immutable than any despot's, yet to man's daily life they rarelyseem… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Peace /n/: A rare state which has only existed when a despot has been fearsome or strong enough to impose it. The… — Boyd Rice Copy Share Image
No despot ever flung forth his legions to die in foreign conquest, no privilege-ruled nation ever erupted across its borders, to lock… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Historically speaking, the Christian religion is nothing but a Jewish sect... After the destruction of Judaism, the extinction of Christian slave morals… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I don't give a damn if you like Blackbeard. I don't care if you think he is an absolute despot. Do you… — Ray Stevenson Copy Share Image
Nothing is more durable than the dynasty of Doubt; for he reigns in the hearts of all his people, but gives satisfaction… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“The demands of the self have primacy, mistress. Always, else there would be no champions. There would be no hierarchy at all.… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
In a Democracy, the real rulers are the dexterous manipulators of votes, with their placemen, the mechanics who so skillfully operate the… — Konstantin Pobedonostsev Copy Share Image
The American culture ideal of the "self-made-man," of everyone "standing on his own feet" seemed as tragic a picture as the initiative-destroying… — Kurt Lewin Copy Share Image
Putin is a despot, and he's a very good despot. And he will see things in a narrow way. What is good… — Marvin Kalb Copy Share Image
Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Even despots accept the excellence of liberty. The simple truth is that they wish to keep it for themselves and promote the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Liberty is of small value to the lower third of humanity. They greatly prefer security, which means protection by some class above… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I think Sepp Blatter is in danger...or has reached a point now, where he is being mocked within the game. Whether he's… — Alex Ferguson Copy Share Image
If a despot like Adolf Hitler can think of 1000-year reign, why can't you think of a goal that is gonna last… — Peter J. Daniels Copy Share Image
History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake. — Edgar Wallace Copy Share Image
Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Technology adds a new dimension to the process by providing modern despots with instruments far more efficient than any available to their… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Ignorant, unconscious and dishonourable part of a society want and like kings, dictators, padishahs and all sort of despots; educated, conscious and… — Mehmet Murat Ildan 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
Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The lust of dominion innovates so imperceptibly that we become complete despots before our wanton abuse of power is perceived; the tyranny… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
The constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruption's of time and party, its… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
all social relations exist and grow in the human mind. That one despot can rule over a million other men rests absolutely… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Muslims, scholars or not, are on the side of the oppressed and never on the side of the oppressors. Some scholars claim… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
I’m thinking of a God very different from the God of the Christian and far and away from the God of Islam,… — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do,… — Plato Copy Share Image
The great conductor is always a despot by temperament and intractable in his ways. ... The artist is obliged to keep his… — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
Power is the test. Some, once they have it, are content to buy the show of liking, and punish those who withhold… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
