Barbarians Quote by John Stuart Mill

Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.

— Arabella Weir

Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

— Oscar Wilde

Despotism is a long crime.

— Victor Hugo

What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis…

— George Washington

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

— Daniel Webster

“It has been said that terror is the principle of despotic government. Does your government therefore resemble despotism? Yes, as the sword that gleams…

— Maximilien de Robespierre

Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.

— Walter Bagehot

The progress of despotism tends to disappoint its own purpose.

— Edward Gibbon

If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a…

— Anonymous

Any government, that is its own judge of, and determines authoritatively for the people, what are its own powers over the people, is an…

— Lysander Spooner

“The claim to political equality was then supplemented by the demand for economic democracy, which was to give substance to the ideal of the…

— Smith III, Ted J