Despot Quotes

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Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. — Mikhail Bakunin
Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence. — Aeschylus
Peace /n/: A rare state which has only existed when a despot has been fearsome or strong enough to impose it. The image of your… — Boyd Rice
Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others… — Eric Hoffer
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in… — Thomas Jefferson
If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If people by a… — Herbert Spencer
The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot. — Thomas B. Macaulay
Nothing is more durable than the dynasty of Doubt; for he reigns in the hearts of all his people, but gives satisfaction to none of… — Charles Caleb Colton
I realized that I had granted my illness lordship over me. In viewing my depression as a despot subjecting me to its savage fancies, I… — Eric G. Wilson
The American cultural ideal of the self-made man, of everyone standing on his own feet, is as tragic a picture as the initiative Â– destroying… — Kurt Lewin
Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state,… — Aeschines
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. The manna of popular liberty must be gathered… — Wendell Phillips
Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the whole history of their use. — Roger Scruton
In a Democracy, the real rulers are the dexterous manipulators of votes, with their placemen, the mechanics who so skillfully operate the hidden springs which… — Konstantin Pobedonostsev
I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Those who disagree with the dictator's plan have no other means to carry on than to defeat the despot by force of arms. — Ludwig von Mises
A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold. — Elwyn Brooks White
Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of… — Tim Bishop

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