Man is about the same, in the main, whether with…

Despotism and freedom of the press cannot exist together.

— Leon Gambetta

“But his mood had changed. “You can’t build politics on love,” he said. “People aren’t concerned with love; it’s too disordered. They prefer despotism.…

— Anonymous

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself.

— Erich Fromm

Logotherapy . . . considers man as a being whose main concern consists in fulfilling a meaning and in actualizing values, rather than in…

— Viktor E. Frankl

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort…

— Erich Fromm

Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.

— Anonymous

“Man’s main task is to give birth to himself. ”

— Erich Fromm

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

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

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

— Stendhal

Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“The central government was a despotism tempered by military rebellion and assassination and replacement of one scurvy lot of ruling dynasts by another. But…

— Norman F. Cantor

Generally, I like all islands. There, it is easier to rule.

— Albert Camus