Despotism Quote by Gregory David Roberts Download Open image ““Despotism despieses nothing so much as righteousness in its victims”” — Gregory David Roberts ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Despotism Justice Righteousness
“It had been supposed, until our time, that despotism was odious, under whatever form it appeared. But it is a discovery of modern days… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“It would seem that if despotism were to be established among the democratic nations of our days, it might assume a different character; it… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“The glory of God is not that of a despotic tyrant, but the splendour of love before which we fall not in abject terror… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
“The essence of the conception of righteousness, therefore, is to afford an outlet for sadism by cloaking cruelty as justice.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
“Obedience, unconditional obedience, is the catch-word of tyrants of every description, and to render 'assurance doubly sure,' one kind of despotism supports another.” — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“You cannot mend the chromosome, quell the earthquake, or stanch the flood. You cannot atone for the dead tyrants’ murders and you alone cannot… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“The saddest consequence which attends the prosperity and success of God’s enemies in the world, is their pride and blasphemy against God, his truth,… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
“And that in this backsliding day, we might not spend our breath in fruitless complaints of the evils of others; but may everyone begin… — Various Copy Share Image
“Two very bad things are ill-will and unbelief, both of which are contrary to righteousness; for ill-will is opposed to charity, and unbelief to… — Pope Alexander I of Alexandria Copy Share Image
“There, wealth is a god, and the greed of gain a virtue. There, genius starves, and heroism dies unrewarded. There, faith is martyred, and… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
“Now, at a point when the entire world seems mired in violence and cynicism, when the Church is shrinking, the environment being poisoned, when… — Roland Merullo Copy Share Image
The simple and astonishing truth about India and Indian people is that when you go there, and deal with them, your heart always guides… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write. — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
I look back, now, and I know that the naming moment, which seemed so insignificant then, which seemed to demand no more than an… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
“Men are just men - it is what they do, or refuse to do, that links them to good and evil. The truth is… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Indians are the Italians of Asia and vice versa. Every man in both countries is a singer when he is happy, and every woman… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
A lot of bad stuff in the world wasn’t really that bad until someone tried to change it. — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Of course I wanted to know. I was a writer. I wanted to know everything. — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears. — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Love is the passionate search for a truth other than your own; and once you feel it, honestly and completely, love is forever.. — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
“I know now that it's the sweet, sweating smell of hope, which is opposite of hate; and it's the sour, stifled smell of greed,… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
“I hesitated. Karla once said that men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women,… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Neither should men study war with a view to the enslavement of those who do not deserve to be enslaved; but first of all… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and founder of… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
A court which yields to the popular will thereby licenses itself to practice despotism, for there can be no assurance that it will not,… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
