Democracy is necessarily despotism, as it establishes an executive power contrary to the general will; all being able to decide against one… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
We, the workers and inhabitants of St Petersburg, of various estates, our wives, our children, and our aged, helpless parents, come to… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
“When the Rule of Law disappears, we are ruled by the whims of men.” — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
Throughout all the pain of enslavement and despotism, of inquisition, forced conversion, and massacre, the Jewish people has carried in its heart… — Berl Katznelson Copy Share Image
Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden. — Jean-Francois de La Harpe Copy Share Image
When I'm making something, I've always felt in charge and therefore able to call the shots. But what you've got to do… — Armando Iannucci Copy Share Image
Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
It has been said that terror is the principle of despotic government. Does your government therefore resemble despotism? Yes, as the sword… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
“It had been supposed, until our time, that despotism was odious, under whatever form it appeared. But it is a discovery of… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Man is about the same, in the main, whether with despotism, or whether with freedom. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
[the framers of the Constitution] intended our government should be a republic, which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
There was one species of despotism under which he had long groaned, and that was petticoat government. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Throwing off despotism and tyranny is our history and part of our national identity - something in which we can take incredible… — Mike Crapo Copy Share Image
Every device employed to bolster individual freedom must have as its chief purpose the impairment of the absoluteness of power. The indications… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There is this of good in real evils; they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Other offences, even the greatest, are the violation of one law: despotism is the violation of all. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
It is quite possible that we will soon come to live under some sort of global despotism, enlightened or not. This is… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
If the perpetual oscillation of nations between anarchy and despotism is to be replaced by the steady march of self-restraining freedom, it… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“This society [Jesuits] has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon 's despotism or ideology. It has… — John Adams Copy Share Image
As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
I do not want history to record me as someone who has bequeathed to his nation the institution of despotism. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
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