In times of anarchy one may seem a despot in order to be a saviour. — Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau Copy Share Image
“WILL ALIGNMENT Despot's ultimate goal, using terror as his tool in trade = Corporal punishment in schools Kamil Ali” — Kamil Ali 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
If it's a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“No arrogant man has ever touched the human heart, no despot ever commanded respect.” — Andy Paula Copy Share Image
“Sin is an exacting despot who can be vanquished by no created power, but by the sovereign power of Jesus Christ alone.” — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“The wise despot...maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“I don’t need immortality. The fear of death keeps a girl sharp. It helps us remember that what we do here, now,… — C.M. Hayden Copy Share Image
No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed… — Richard Jefferies 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
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
Mugabe's become a disgrace to Africa. And I must say this because I am an African and a lot of us looked… — George Ayittey Copy Share Image
In every country and in every age the priest has been hostile to liberty; he is always in allegiance to the despot,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We always make the mistake in the United States of America in Democratic or Republican administrations alike is we tend to embrace… — Anthony Weiner Copy Share Image
“...the Despot is Master only as long as he is the strongest, and as soon as he can be driven out he… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“But when did this anger take root? When snakes first appeared on the national scene? When water in the bowels of the… — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Copy Share Image
The single despot stands out in the face of all men, and says: I am the State: My will is law: I… — Lysander Spooner 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
