Democracy passes into despotism.

“Do you mean that the tyrant will dare to use violence against the people who fathered him, and raise his hand against them if…

— Plato

If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.

— George Bernard Shaw

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it…

— Anonymous

At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.

— Stendhal

Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own…

— H. L. Mencken

Neither should men study war with a view to the enslavement of those who do not deserve to be enslaved; but first of all…

— Aristotle

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

I loved Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi. Its about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria…

— Uzo Aduba

“The time passes very fast, not always but almost.”

— Ronja Latz

They put all this money into these huge films and then no one goes to see them. That sort of shows they're out of…

— Zach Braff

As is known, the sugar molecule as it passes through lactic acid can easily be split by purely chemical means.

— Eduard Buchner

Pay enough for anything and it passes for taste.

— Sue Grafton

“The grief, too, passes.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

With every year that passes, I get further away from my target audience, and while I've been happy to think of myself as a…

— Anthony Horowitz

Clinical depression passes but it's tough, it's very tough.

— Brenda Fricker