“Despotism may be the only organizational alternative to the political structure that we observe.” — James M. Buchanan Copy Share Image
We are ruled by chance but never have enough patience to accept its despotism. — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
In matters editorial, I am a believer in totalitarian despotism. Most writers are lazy, difficult, selfish, thoughtless, and unreliable. — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
It seems that the inevitable fate of man is never attain complete freedom: princes everywhere tend to despotism and the people to… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said "Your stay with us is… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
William: "I'm sure we can all pull together, sir." Vetinari: "Oh, I do hope not. Pulling together is the aim of despotism… — Terry Pratchett 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
If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The faith in reason insists that the poverty of democracy offers a greater hope for mankind than the prosperity that attaches itself… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“Democracy is the spawn of despotism. And like father, like son. Democracy is power and rule. It's not the will of the… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
We judge the Russians because they're living under despotism and we don't like it, but we've gotten into a fix now where… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control. Where ever the cause of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles,… — Thomas Jefferson 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
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
“The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement, being in unceasing antagonism to that disposition to aim at… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Freemasonry teaches not merely temperance, fortitude, prudence, justice, brotherly love, relief, and truth, but liberty, equality, and fraternity, and it denounces ignorance,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
What astonishing changes a few years are capable of producing! I am told that even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form… — George Washington Copy Share Image
As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created… — Abraham Lincoln 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
“The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it grew, in the mind of… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
“We may say, in a broad way, that Greek philosophy down to Aristotle expresses the mentality appropriate to the City State; that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Suppose that we agree that the two atrocities can or may be mentioned in the same breath. Why should we do so?… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies… — Oscar Wilde 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
Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant,… — George Mason Copy Share Image
Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
The constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruption's of time and party, its… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I'm less influenced by any of [Karl] Marx's ideas today than I've ever been in my life, and most significantly Marx's theory… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and libraries of Europe, this country remains to preserve… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I earnestly pray that the Omnipotent Being who has not deserted the cause of America in the hour of its extremest hazard,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Inertia! Our ruling class knows one law; no change. Despotism! They know one rule; force. Maldistribution! They know one desire; to hold… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
![“As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters”; “[the barbarians’] poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the…” quote by Edward Gibbon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0d0/edward-gibbon-710_applause_as-long-as-mankind-shall-continue-to-bes_1024385.jpg)
![“That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant, practiced in acts of despotism and cruelty.” quote by George Mason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c86/george-mason-8435_american-revolution_that-slow-poison-slavery-is-daily-contam_1271467.jpg)
![“I'm less influenced by any of [Karl] Marx's ideas today than I've ever been in my life, and most significantly Marx's theory of historical materialism, which I think is virtually a debris of despotism.” quote by Murray Bookchin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/123/murray-bookchin-2587_debris_i-m-less-influenced-by-any-of-karl-marx_646516.jpg)
