Despots Quotes
25 quotes by 23 authors
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One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one.
— James Madison
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Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said any assumption that the US would not use force against North Korea would be a mistake. Such bellicosity frightens…
— Ann Coulter
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The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though…
— Plato
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The Principle of Uncertainty fixed once for all the realisation that all knowledge is limited. It is an irony of history that at the very…
— Jacob Bronowski
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The peoples owe all political rights and privileges which we enjoy today in greater or lesser measure, not to the good will of their governments,…
— Rudolf Rocker
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Despots prefer the friendship of the dog, who, unjustly mistreated and debased, still loves and serves the man who wronged him.
— Charles Fourier
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I’m thinking of a God very different from the God of the Christian and far and away from the God of Islam, because both are…
— Antony Flew
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Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous.
— William Wells Brown
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Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to…
— Lajos Kossuth
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Providence has given the United States the duty of extending Christian civilization. We come as ministering angels, not despots.
— Knute Nelson
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In historical fact, all of history's despots, combined, never managed to get things done as well as this rambunctious, self-critical civilization of free and sovereign…
— David Brin
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The consent of the governed" is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well.
— Walter Lippmann
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Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when…
— Victor Hugo
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There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There…
— Oscar Wilde
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Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
— Demosthenes
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There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots -…
— Demosthenes
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Despots and democratic majorities are drunk with power.
— Ludwig von Mises
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It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.
— Thomas Jefferson
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History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.
— Robert Kiyosaki
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Enlightened despots are mythical creatures; real despots seem more interested in stealing money or installing their sons after them.
— Elliott Abrams
Who Wrote These Despots Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 25 Despots Quotes as follows: