Despotism Quote by Max Stirner Download Open image “Every State is a despotism, be the despot one or many.” — Max Stirner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Despotism Despots Inspirational Love States
Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis… — George Washington Copy Share Image
A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may. — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
I am all and nothing; I am not a mere thought, but at the same time I am full of thoughts, a thought-world. — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
Only the free and personal man is a good citizen (realist), and even with the lack of particular (scholarly, artistic, etc)culture, a tasteful judge… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
People is the name of the body, State of the spirit, of that ruling person that has hitherto suppressed me. — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
Many a man renounces morals, but with great difficulty the conception, 'morality.' Morality is the 'idea' of morals, their intellectual power, their power over… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
For what reason then do the realists show themselves so unfriendly toward philosophy? Because they misunderstand their own calling and with all their might… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
Before what is sacred, people lose all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude toward it. And yet… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
Christianity has aimed to deliver us from a life determined by nature, from the appetites as actuating us, and so has meant that man… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
The freedom of man is, in political liberalism, freedom from persons, from personal dominion, from the master; the securing of each individual person against… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
Is not all the stupid chatter of most of our newspapers the babble of fools who suffer from the fixed idea of morality, legality,… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Neither should men study war with a view to the enslavement of those who do not deserve to be enslaved; but first of all… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and founder of… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
A court which yields to the popular will thereby licenses itself to practice despotism, for there can be no assurance that it will not,… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
