Despotism Quote by John Stuart Mill

“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

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

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

The supreme mystery of despotism, its prop and stay, is to keep men in a state of deception, and with the specious title of…

— Anonymous

When men have become heartily wearied of licentious anarchy, their eagerness has been proportionately great to embrace the opposite extreme of rigorous despotism.

— Richard Whately

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

— Andrew Johnson

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

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

“Obedience, unconditional obedience, is the catch-word of tyrants of every description, and to render 'assurance doubly sure,' one kind of despotism supports another.”

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one.

— Andrew Johnson

Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice-- The weakness and the wickedness of luxury-- The…

— Lord Byron

In times of anarchy one may seem a despot in order to be a saviour.

— Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau

A people among whom custom is altogether sovereign endures the despotism of the dead.

— Bertrand de Jouvenel

It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less.

— Joseph Addison