Despotic Quotes

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When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa. — Honore de Balzac
The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control… — Tom Clancy
Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty… — Thomas Jefferson
Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people. The general government . . . can never be in danger of degenerating into a… — George Washington
[Jehovah is] certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust, the most bloodthirsty, the most despotic, and the most hostile… — Mikhail Bakunin
There can be no freedom of the individual, no democracy, without the capital system, the profit system, the private enterprise system. These are, in the… — Russell Cornell Leffingwell
The most popular man under a democracy is not the most democratic man, but the most despotic man. The common folk delight in the exactions… — H. L. Mencken
It is obvious that the most despotic forms of social organization would be suitable for inert men who are satisfied with the situation fate has… — Madame de Stael
The concentrating of powers in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be… — Thomas Jefferson
[T]he opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves, in their, own… — Thomas Jefferson
The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy,… — Abraham Lincoln
The utopian schemes of leveling and a community of goods, Â are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the crown.… — Samuel Adams
Homosexuality is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because… — Plato
A single legislature, on account of the superabundance of its power, and the uncontrolled rabidity of its execution, becomes as dangerous to the principles of… — Thomas Paine
Control of thought is more important for governments that are free and popular than for despotic and military states. The logic is straightforward: a despotic… — Noam Chomsky
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because… — Baron de Montesquieu
Recent action in Syria and Palestine also tell us that the awakening voices of democracy in those regions are occurring, and that those in that… — Judd Gregg
Slave power crushes freedom of speech and of opinion. Slave power degrades labor. Slave power is arrogant, is jealous and intrusive, is cruel, is despotic,… — Elizabeth Van Lew

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