“I must admit that I feel that the best form of government is benevolent despotism.” — Jeff Grubb Copy Share Image
Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Creativity doesn't flourish in an atmosphere of despotism, coercion and fear. — P. D. James Copy Share Image
A despotism resting on a plebicite is quite as natural a form of democracy as a republic. — Latest 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
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Humans have "dominion" over animals. But that "dominion" (radah in Hebrew) does not mean despotism, rather we are set over creation to… — Andrew Linzey 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
“The nation which will not adopt an equilibrium of power must adopt a despotism. There is no other alternative.” — John Adams Copy Share Image
Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly.… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions-a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is the definition… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations...is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does… — Abraham Lincoln 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
“There’s no English equivalent for silovik. It doesn’t translate succinctly because to create something as Machiavellian as a silovik requires both the… — Tanya Thompson Copy Share Image
“ Auguste Comte , in particular, whose social system, as unfolded in his Systeme de Politique Positive, aims at establishing (though by… — John Stuart Mill 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
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
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
The 'survival of the fittest' is beneficently inevitable; the capitalist is powerless against labor, unless the State . . . steps in,… — Ezra Heywood 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
“Call no man lucky until he is dead, but there have been moment of rare satisfaction in the often random and fragmented… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“A general State educationis a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another: and as the mould in which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
What constitutes the bulwark of our liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea-coasts, our army and our… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Julian sincerely abhorred the system of oriental despotism which Diocletian, Constantine, and the patient habits of four score years, had established in… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“The right-wing Tories and the conservative Whigs fought Napoleon as the Usurper and the Enemy of the Established Order; the liberal Tories… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share Image
“I seek to trace the novel features under which despotism may appear in the world. The first thing that strikes the observation… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The French are nice people. I allow them to sing and to write, and they allow me to do whatever I like. — Cardinal Mazarin Copy Share Image
The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“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
