Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Despotism may be able to do without religion, but democracy cannot. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism. — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
“When the Rule of Law disappears, we are ruled by the whims of men.” — Tiffany Madison 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
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 leading princes are the most servile tools of English despotism. . . . The native princes are the stronghold of the… — Karl Marx 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
Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one. — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
The moment you introduce a despotism in the world of thought, you succeed in making hypocrites - and you get in such… — Robert Green Ingersoll 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 whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Resolved ... that it would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears… — Thomas Jefferson 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
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
“The foremost, or indeed the sole condition, which is required in order to succeed in centralizing the supreme power in a democratic… — Alexis de Tocqueville 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
“Man does not necessarily begin with despotism because he is barbarous, but very often finds his way to despotism because he is… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In a government framed for durable liberty, not less regard must be paid to giving the magistrate a proper degree of authority,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
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
“You seem to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions; a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The absolute monarch was supposed to serve the interests of the nation as a whole, to be the visible exponent and proof… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“This point deserves attention, for if a democratic republic similar to that of the United States were ever founded in a country… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“A dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidden… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Socialism is the fantastic younger brother of almost decrepit despotism, which it wants to succeed; its efforts are, therefore, in the deepest… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The work relationship has to be based on mutual respect. Psychological despotism is basically contemptuous—far more contemptuous than the traditional Theory X.… — Peter F. Drucker Copy Share Image
I believe in positive despotism. That means an exchange between people. I'm thinking about the fact that someone serves me breakfast in… — Odd Nerdrum Copy Share Image
Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism? — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
A people among whom custom is altogether sovereign endures the despotism of the dead. — Bertrand de Jouvenel Copy Share Image
Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may. — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
![“The absolute monarch was supposed to serve the interests of the nation as a whole, to be the visible exponent and proof of the existence of such a common interest. The enlightened despotism was based on [Duc de] Rohan's "kings command the peoples and interest commands the king"; with the abolition…” quote by Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/230/hannah-arendt-610_1968_the-absolute-monarch-was-supposed-to-ser_1887875.jpg)
