Despotism Quote by Jeff Grubb Download Open image ““I must admit that I feel that the best form of government is benevolent despotism.”” — Jeff Grubb ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Despotism Government Politics
“I always said a good despotism was the best form of government; and I am twice as much in favour of it now I… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“All despotism is bad; but the worst is that which works with the machinery of freedom.” — Junius Copy Share Image
“The nation which will not adopt an equilibrium of power must adopt a despotism. There is no other alternative.” — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Despotism may be the only organizational alternative to the political structure that we observe.” — James M. Buchanan Copy Share Image
“I hate to admit it, but governmental deviousness is usually better explained by incompetence, vanity, and the need to protect one's job at all… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Government at its best is a necessary evil; at its worst, an intolerable one.” — Joseph Befumo 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
“We are superior to government and should remain master over it, not the other way around.” — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“Government in general, any government anywhere, is a thing of exquisite comicality to a discerning mind.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The no-subscription fee was so much in our DNA from the original 'Guild Wars': that we would get a smaller market but willing to… — Jeff Grubb Copy Share Image
One of the turning points in the look of the Guardian is when we decided Logan Thackeray would be a Guardian as opposed to… — Jeff Grubb Copy Share Image
“Size matters not. Inertia, however, is a pain in the butt." -Mander Zuma” — Jeff Grubb Copy Share Image
Back when we started this at the tail end of 'Eye of the North,' Ree Soesbee and I worked out 250 years of timeline… — Jeff Grubb Copy Share Image
In 'Guild Wars 2,' the dragons are the greatest threat, but there's so much more going on. It's a living world; it's a dynamic… — Jeff Grubb Copy Share Image
Part of the story of 'Ghosts of Ascalon' is how they got to that tentative truce where you can find humans and charr working… — Jeff Grubb Copy Share Image
'Guild Wars 2' is a wider world in that we have a lot of different mechanics available for storytelling. We have our personal story,… — Jeff Grubb Copy Share Image
“The brew was military style "A"—freshly made and scalding, suitable for pouring down on peasants attacking the family castle.” — Jeff Grubb Copy Share Image
“Remember me as I tried to be, not as I was." ~Urza, The Brother's War” — Jeff Grubb Copy Share Image
“Did you Voice her?” asked Reen. “ ‘Voice’ her?” replied Mander, looking perplexed. “You know. Voice her. Jedi Hoodoo. Mind tricks.” She made a theatrical… — Jeff Grubb Copy Share Image
The original 'Guild Wars' was heavily instanced: you'd have these outposts where everybody was in, but as soon as you got out of town,… — Jeff Grubb 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
“The central government was a despotism tempered by military rebellion and assassination and replacement of one scurvy lot of ruling dynasts by another. But… — Norman F. Cantor 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
“No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of poverty; they are still chained to… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“All despotism is bad; but the worst is that which works with the machinery of freedom.” — Junius 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
