In times of anarchy one may seem a despot in order to be a saviour. — Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau 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
“WILL ALIGNMENT Despot's ultimate goal, using terror as his tool in trade = Corporal punishment in schools Kamil Ali” — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
“No arrogant man has ever touched the human heart, no despot ever commanded respect.” — Andy Paula 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
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. — Mikhail Bakunin 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
“The wise despot...maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.” — Frank Herbert 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“...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
“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
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
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
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
