If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
But sea power has never led to despotism. The nations that have enjoyed sea power even for a brief period-Athens, Scandinavia, the… — Samuel Eliot Morison Copy Share Image
Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices… — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.... An attempt to scrutinize men's thoughts and punish… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
A warlike nation like the Germans, without either cities, letters, arts, or money, found some compensation for this savage state in the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The source of the terror in Lebanon as in Iraq is to be found in the Koran and in the despotisms of… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
The foremost or indeed sole condition required in order to succeed in centralizing the supreme power in a democratic community is to… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Socialism is the phantastic younger brother of despotism, which it wants to inherit. Socialism wants to have the fullness of state force… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Perhaps a revolution can overthrow autocratic despotism and profiteering or power-grabbing oppression, but it can never truly reform a manner of thinking;… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
... ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will tend to be ages of despotism, whereas when… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The free-trade idea, logically applied, will abolish usury; and with usury will disappear the chief bone of contention between labor and capital.… — Ezra Heywood Copy Share Image
Toleration is not the opposite of intoleration, but it is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The leading princes are the most servile tools of English despotism. . . . The native princes are the stronghold of the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“But now I understand something more fully that I once only understood abstractly. I see how utterly ridiculous it is to think… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
Political dissension is doubtless a less evil than the lethargy of despotism: but still it is a great evil, and it would… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“From being a movement aiming for universal freedom, communism turned into a system of universal despotism. That is the logic of utopia.” — John Gray Copy Share Image
Two forms of government are favorable to the prevalence of falsehood and deceit. Under a Despotism, men are false, treacherous, and deceitful… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Law And Freedom without Violence (Anarchy) Law And Violence without Freedom (Despotism) Violence without Freedom And Law (Barbarism) Violence with Freedom And… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
