When men have become heartily wearied of licentious anarchy, their eagerness has been proportionately great to embrace the opposite extreme of rigorous… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; and the vessel of the state is driven between the Scylla… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
If anything qualifies as an irony of history it would be this: that Marx and Engels throughout the nineteenth century wrote about… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Absolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the absolute despot… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“The fall of moral civilization has always been brought about by those who were "just doing their jobs".” — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
The complete emancipation of women from the ties which held them back in the past, during the ages of despotism and ignorance,… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
In times of anarchy one may seem a despot in order to be a saviour. — Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau Copy Share Image
Are the peoples of the Middle East somehow beyond the reach of liberty? Are millions of men and women and children condemned… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
This [the U.S. Constitution] is likely to be administered for a course of years and then end in despotism... when the people… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Against us are all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty We are likely to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous. — William Wells Brown Copy Share Image
I will believe in the right of one man to govern a nation despotically when I find a man born unto the… — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the… — Denis Kearney Copy Share Image
A people among whom custom is altogether sovereign endures the despotism of the dead. — Bertrand de Jouvenel Copy Share Image
We should...be able to see that our interest would be best served not by asking the state to promulgate our values but… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
Europeans have sometimes been beguiled by a despotism that comes concealed in the seductive form of an ideal – as it did… — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share Image
The 'survival of the fittest' is beneficently inevitable; the capitalist is powerless against labor, unless the State . . . steps in,… — Ezra Heywood Copy Share Image
“Even despotism does not produce its worst effects, so long as individuality exists under it; and whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
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