Better things Quote by Oscar Wilde

Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.

— Arabella Weir

Despotism is a long crime.

— Victor Hugo

“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

The progress of despotism tends to disappoint its own purpose.

— Edward Gibbon

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

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

It is certain that despotism ruins individuals by preventing them from producing wealth much more than by depriving them of what they have already…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.

— John Stuart Mill

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

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous.

— William Wells Brown

Nepotism is an overrated debate. It exists everywhere and I have been telling this from the day one.

— Anubhav Sinha

Enlightened despots are mythical creatures; real despots seem more interested in stealing money or installing their sons after them.

— Elliott Abrams