Despotisms Quotes

9 quotes by 8 authors

• Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
• The source of the terror in Lebanon as in Iraq is to be found in the Koran and in the despotisms of the Arab Middle… — David Horowitz
• The whole conception of a God is a conception derived from the ancient oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of free men. We… — Bertrand Russell
• Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all of the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search… — Frederick Douglass
• The free-trade idea, logically applied, will abolish usury; and with usury will disappear the chief bone of contention between labor and capital. But, just at… — Ezra Heywood
• All such men are, or ought to be, agreed, that simple governments are despotisms; and of all despotisms, a democracy, though the least durable, is… — Fisher Ames
• Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding… — James Madison
• Unlike despotisms, modern democracies are not supposed promiscuously to accumulate property and then charge their taxpayers to maintain it. But that is what they do.… — James Buchan
• The whole conception of God is a conception derived from the ancient Oriental despotisms. — Bertrand Russell

Who Wrote These Despotisms Quotes

8 authors contributed a total of 9 Despotisms Quotes as follows:

• 2 Despotisms Quotes by Bertrand Russell
• 1 Despotisms Quote by David Horowitz
• 1 Despotisms Quote by Frederick Douglass
• 1 Despotisms Quote by Ezra Heywood
• 1 Despotisms Quote by Fisher Ames
• 1 Despotisms Quote by James Madison
• 1 Despotisms Quote by James Buchan
• 1 Despotisms Quote by Aristotle