Best Despot Quotes

46 Despot quotes by 41 unique authors

Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. — Oscar Wilde
All ideas advanced to deal with the Florentine noise problem, the Florentine traffic problem, are Utopian, and nobody believes in them, just as nobody believed… — Mary McCarthy
No despot ever flung forth his legions to die in foreign conquest, no privilege-ruled nation ever erupted across its borders, to lock in death embrace… — Margaret Sanger
Prig and philistine, Ph.D. and C.P.A., despot of English 218c and big shot of the Kiwanis Club-how much, at bottom, they both hate Art, and… — Louis Kronenberger
Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotism at… — Friedrich Schiller
When I have been travelling up and down on our boats, or about on my collecting tours, and reflected that every brutal, disgusting, mean, low-lived… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
If a despot like Adolf Hitler can think of 1000-year reign, why can't you think of a goal that is gonna last 100 years after… — Peter J. Daniels
Man, who wert once a despot and a slave, A dupe and a deceiver! a decay, A traveller from the cradle to the grave Through… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise… — Frank Herbert
The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn… — Eric Hoffer
The single despot stands out in the face of all men, and says: I am the State: My will is law: I am your master:… — Lysander Spooner
In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses… — Thomas Jefferson
I wish I was a despot that I might save the noble, the beautiful trees that are daily falling sacrifice to the cupidity of their… — Thomas Jefferson
A hurt body and mind aren't just like a dictatorship; they are a dictatorship. There is no tyrant as merciless as pain, no despot so… — Stephen King
I imagine that the goddess of Love has come down from Olympus to visit a mortal. So as not to die of cold in this… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
In this statement, my Scipio, I build on your own admirable definition, that there can be no community, properly so called, unless it be regulated… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake. — Edgar Wallace
No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed to serve the… — Richard Jefferies
Books have been handed down from generation to generation, as the true teachers of piety and the love of God, that represent him as so… — William Godwin
In every country and in every age the priest has been hostile to liberty; he is always in allegiance to the despot, abetting his abuses… — Thomas Jefferson
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. — Stendhal

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