Despots Quote by Khalil Gibran

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

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

— Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau

“...the Despot is Master only as long as he is the strongest, and as soon as he can be driven out he cannot protest…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul.…

— Oscar Wilde

The end of despots is always odd?exhilarating to those who suffered their tyrannies, and to those who hold despotism in contempt, and anti-climatic at…

— Fouad Ajami

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that…

— Anonymous

“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

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

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Despots govern by terror. They know that he who fears God fears nothing else; and therefore they eradicate from the mind, through their Voltaire,…

— Edmund Burke

For a king, death is better than dethronement and exile.

— Theodora

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

— Andrew Johnson