Despotism Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville

“Despotism despieses nothing so much as righteousness in its victims”

— Gregory David Roberts

“It would seem that if despotism were to be established among the democratic nations of our days, it might assume a different character; it…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Even despotism does not produce its worst effects, so long as individuality exists under it; and whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name…

— John Stuart Mill

“Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Obedience, unconditional obedience, is the catch-word of tyrants of every description, and to render 'assurance doubly sure,' one kind of despotism supports another.”

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“I will say this much for the nobility: that, tyrannical, murderous, rapacious and morally rotten as they were, they were deeply and enthusiastically religous.…

— Mark Twain

“In a place like this, there would be petty despots. Factions. This was a sunless world where madness and depravity reigned.”

— Ann Aguirre

Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing…

— Victor Hugo

“The ruthlessness of the godly invalidated their claims of virtue.”

— Salman Rushdie

The end of despots is always odd?exhilarating to those who suffered their tyrannies, and to those who hold despotism in contempt, and anti-climatic at…

— Fouad Ajami

“Power, money, lusts of the flesh and any other desire which takes a man, a family, a village or a nation from peace or…

— Jaime Buckley