Despots Quote by John Adams

The time will come when the evil forms we have known can no more be organized. Man's culture can spare nothing, wants all material.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what…

— Primo Levi

A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which…

— Francois Arago

The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface, and though…

— Seneca the Younger

“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

Facing ultimate destruction and the end of the world, human society will undergo extreme, complex, and profound transformations.

— Liu Cixin

“Is it true that man was once perfectly pure and innocent, and that he became degenerate by disobedience? No. The real truth is, and…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

People will endure their tyrants for years, but they tear their deliverers to pieces if a millennium is not created immediately.

— Woodrow Wilson

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are…

— Marya Mannes

In the long run even the most despotic governments with all their brutality and cruelty are no match for ideas. Eventually the ideology that…

— Ludwig von Mises

It will be seen that we contemplate a time when man's will shall be law to the physical world, and he shall no longer…

— Henry David Thoreau