Despotism Quote by Honore de Balzac

“Despotism despieses nothing so much as righteousness in its victims”

— Gregory David Roberts

Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves.

— Frank Herbert

“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

Even in a jungle, lovely flowers will spring up here and there, such being the fecundity of nature, and however badly our pastors and…

— Eric Bentley

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

In order for good to blossom it must be cultivated and exercised by constant practice, and to be truly righteous there is required a…

— Harold B. Lee

Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them. You may…

— Olive Schreiner

Immediately upon the fall, the mind of man shrank from its primitive greatness and expandedness, to an exceeding smallness and contractedness... Before, his soul…

— Jonathan Edwards

“Curiously enough, it seems that at times the spiritual side prevails, and then the materialistic side—in wave-like motions following each other. ...At one time…

— Swami Vivekananda

That is the accursed thing about small surroundings -- they make the soul small.

— Henrik Ibsen

Nature has no promise for society, least of all, any remedy for sin.

— Horace Bushnell

An sacrificing things makes human as Deity and greediness make it devilish

— Mak_786