Cases Quote by Kenneth Minogue

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

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

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

But sea power has never led to despotism. The nations that have enjoyed sea power even for a brief period-Athens, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, England,…

— Samuel Eliot Morison

Despotism is a long crime.

— Victor Hugo

Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Nepotism exists everywhere.

— Kumar Sanu

Europeans know that their great experiment in building peace, unity and prosperity cannot survive as a privileged enclave, surrounded on its outskirts by breeding…

— Dick Cheney

Europe has lived on its contradictions, flourished on its differences, and, constantly transcending itself thereby, has created a civilization on which the whole world…

— Albert Camus

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.

— John Stuart Mill