Consent Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

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

“Unlimited power is the ideal thing when it is in safe hands. The despotism of heaven is the one absolutely perfect government, and earthly…

— Mark Twain

Despotism has forever had a powerful hold upon the world. Autocratic government, not self-government, has been the prevailing state of mankind. The record of…

— Calvin Coolidge

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

— Daniel Webster

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

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

In a despotic government, the only principle by which the tyrant who is to move the whole machine means to regulate and manage the…

— Samuel Williams

Despotic governments do not recognize the precious human component of the state, seeing its citizens only as a faceless, mindless -- and helpless --…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Democracy passes into despotism.

— Plato

An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in…

— Thomas Jefferson

All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.

— Anonymous

By giving the government unlimited powers, the most arbitrary rule can be made legal; and in this way a democracy may set up the…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

All power, even the most despotic, rests ultimately on opinion.

— David Hume