All things Quote by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The progress of despotism tends to disappoint its own purpose.

— Edward Gibbon

Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.

— Arabella Weir

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.

— John Stuart Mill

Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous.

— William Wells Brown

“Even despotism does not produce its worst effects, so long as individuality exists under it; and whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name…

— John Stuart Mill

Despotism is a long crime.

— Victor Hugo

Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

— Oscar Wilde

Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun…

— Charles Caleb Colton

If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a…

— Anonymous

One cannot shape the world without being reshaped in the process. Each gain of power requires its own sacrifice.

— Phil Hine

In a world full of shifting borders, everything is happening all at once in every possible direction.

— Pico Iyer

Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.

— John Stuart Mill