After Quote by Elliott Abrams

In times of anarchy one may seem a despot in order to be a saviour.

— Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau

If it's a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.

— Khalil Gibran

No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

It is certain that despotism ruins individuals by preventing them from producing wealth much more than by depriving them of what they have already…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

An enlightened person is the richest person possible, but his richness comes from surrender, not from fight. He does not... he has not any…

— Rajneesh

The end of despots is always odd?exhilarating to those who suffered their tyrannies, and to those who hold despotism in contempt, and anti-climatic at…

— Fouad Ajami

The supreme mystery of despotism, its prop and stay, is to keep men in a state of deception, and with the specious title of…

— Anonymous

An enlightened society is one where all people - the rich and the poor, the literate and the illiterate, the black and the white,…

— Pandurang Shastri Athavale

“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 subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Nepotism is an overrated debate. It exists everywhere and I have been telling this from the day one.

— Anubhav Sinha

Riches are a cause of evil, not because, of themselves, they do any evil, but because they goad men on to evil.

— Posidonius