The consent of the governed" is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots. — John Adams Copy Share Image
Neither a life of anarchy nor a life under a despot should you praise. To all that lies in the middle has… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despots dread of a newspaper that laughs. — Mark Twain 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
Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery. — Democritus Copy Share Image
If it's a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one. — James Madison Copy Share Image
All ideas advanced to deal with the Florentine noise problem, the Florentine traffic problem, are Utopian, and nobody believes in them, just… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
The end of despots is always odd?exhilarating to those who suffered their tyrannies, and to those who hold despotism in contempt, and… — Fouad Ajami Copy Share Image
Man, who wert once a despot and a slave, A dupe and a deceiver! a decay, A traveller from the cradle to… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
all social relations exist and grow in the human mind. That one despot can rule over a million other men rests absolutely… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman 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
The lust of dominion innovates so imperceptibly that we become complete despots before our wanton abuse of power is perceived; the tyranny… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do,… — Plato Copy Share Image
We recognize caste in dogs because we rank ourselves by the familiar dog system, a ladderlike social arrangement wherein one individual outranks… — Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Copy Share Image
When I have been travelling up and down on our boats, or about on my collecting tours, and reflected that every brutal,… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said any assumption that the US would not use force against North Korea would be a mistake.… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The demands of the self have primacy, mistress. Always, else there would be no champions. There would be no hierarchy at all.… — Steven Erikson 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
Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Putin is a despot, and he's a very good despot. And he will see things in a narrow way. What is good… — Marvin Kalb Copy Share Image
“In a place like this, there would be petty despots. Factions. This was a sunless world where madness and depravity reigned.” — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
Providence has given the United States the duty of extending Christian civilization. We come as ministering angels, not despots. — Knute Nelson Copy Share Image
Enlightened despots are mythical creatures; real despots seem more interested in stealing money or installing their sons after them. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
I’m thinking of a God very different from the God of the Christian and far and away from the God of Islam,… — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
Muslims, scholars or not, are on the side of the oppressed and never on the side of the oppressors. Some scholars claim… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Nothing is more durable than the dynasty of Doubt; for he reigns in the hearts of all his people, but gives satisfaction… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I don't give a damn if you like Blackbeard. I don't care if you think he is an absolute despot. Do you… — Ray Stevenson Copy Share Image
Historically speaking, the Christian religion is nothing but a Jewish sect... After the destruction of Judaism, the extinction of Christian slave morals… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Peace /n/: A rare state which has only existed when a despot has been fearsome or strong enough to impose it. The… — Boyd Rice Copy Share Image
No despot ever flung forth his legions to die in foreign conquest, no privilege-ruled nation ever erupted across its borders, to lock… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Surely the fates are forever kind, though Nature's laws are more immutable than any despot's, yet to man's daily life they rarelyseem… — Henry David Thoreau 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
Ignorant, unconscious and dishonourable part of a society want and like kings, dictators, padishahs and all sort of despots; educated, conscious and… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“Technology adds a new dimension to the process by providing modern despots with instruments far more efficient than any available to their… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Despots govern by terror. They know that he who fears God fears nothing else; and therefore they eradicate from the mind, through… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
