Democracy Quote by G.K. Chesterton

It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less.

— Joseph Addison

Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by one.

— Andrew Johnson

“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

“I seek to trace the novel features under which despotism may appear in the world. The first thing that strikes the observation is an…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

When men have become heartily wearied of licentious anarchy, their eagerness has been proportionately great to embrace the opposite extreme of rigorous despotism.

— Richard Whately

Riches ennoble a man's circumstances, but not himself.

— Immanuel Kant

“The pursuit of wealth generally diverts men of great talents and of great passions from the pursuit of power, and it very frequently happens…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to…

— Orison Swett Marden

“Every one knows how absurd it would be to infer from what a man is or does when in a private station, that he…

— John Stuart Mill

...ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the obscurity and…

— Russell Kirk

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

— Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau

Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing…

— Victor Hugo