Despots Quote by Peter J. Daniels

At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.

— Stendhal

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

All ideas advanced to deal with the Florentine noise problem, the Florentine traffic problem, are Utopian, and nobody believes in them, just as nobody…

— Mary McCarthy

Every State is a despotism, be the despot one or many.

— Max Stirner

Nothing is more durable than the dynasty of Doubt; for he reigns in the hearts of all his people, but gives satisfaction to none…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Those who disagree with the dictator's plan have no other means to carry on than to defeat the despot by force of arms.

— Ludwig von Mises

It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.

— Thomas Jefferson

Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotismat…

— August Wilhelm von Schlegel

Muslims, scholars or not, are on the side of the oppressed and never on the side of the oppressors. Some scholars claim they don't…

— Tariq Ramadan

Ignorant, unconscious and dishonourable part of a society want and like kings, dictators, padishahs and all sort of despots; educated, conscious and honourable part…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The consent of the governed" is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well.

— Walter Lippmann

When the last of the Reformers died, religion, instead of emancipating the nations, had become an excuse for the criminal art of despots. Calvin…

— Lord Acton