All power, even the most despotic, rests ultimately on…

'The will of the nation' is one of those expressions which have been most profusely abused by the wily and the despotic of every…

— Alexis De Tocqueville

Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There are two ways of life, one leading to righteousness, which brings happiness, and the other to unrighteousness, which produces misery. One leads to…

— Arthur Findlay

Despotic rules are attempting to deprive women of their rights.

— Yousef Saanei

“He looks as if he were three or four; looks just like one of those unapproachable, incomprehensible, willful little prehuman creatures, who in their…

— Patrick Süskind

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

— Honore de Balzac

Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an…

— Oriana Fallaci

Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.

— Lord Acton

But in all despotic governments, though a particular prince may favour arts and letter, there is a natural degeneracy of mankind.

— Joseph Addison

Honor is unknown in despotic states.

— Baron de Montesquieu

Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The idea that laws don't apply to the law-makers is for despotic regimes.

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

Clearly if the United States' relationship with Cuba changed, which would require a regime change inside Cuba, if Cuba moved towards a more democratic…

— Jeb Bush

When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a…

— Baron de Montesquieu

It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always…

— David Ricardo