Despotism Quote by John Stuart Mill

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or…

— John Stuart Mill

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.

— John Stuart Mill

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

— Gregory David Roberts

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Arabella Weir

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

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

“The foremost, or indeed the sole condition, which is required in order to succeed in centralizing the supreme power in a democratic community, is…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“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

The progress of despotism tends to disappoint its own purpose.

— Edward Gibbon

Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous.

— William Wells Brown

The foremost or indeed sole condition required in order to succeed in centralizing the supreme power in a democratic community is to love equality…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by one.

— Andrew Johnson