Despotism Quote by Samuel Horsley

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

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

— Daniel Webster

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

— Mary McCarthy

“If a government is built on the principle of benevolence similar to that of a father towards his children, that is, a paternal government…

— Peter Kreeft

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

— Arabella Weir

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

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

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

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

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

All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies are unjust…

— Oscar Wilde

Universal suffrage is the only guarantee against despotism.

— May Wright Sewall

Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.

— Walter Savage Landor