Despotisms Quotes
9 quotes by 8 authors
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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
— Aristotle
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The whole conception of God is a conception derived from the ancient Oriental despotisms.
— Bertrand Russell
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