Candidates Quote by Thomas Paine

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

Governments must not run only for elections. The government should be a bona fide attempt of meeting the demands and expectations of the common…

— Narendra Modi

If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.

— James Bovard

Two forms of government are favorable to the prevalence of falsehood and deceit. Under a Despotism, men are false, treacherous, and deceitful through fear,…

— Albert Pike

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

The concentrating of powers in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will…

— Thomas Jefferson

The point is, is that when you elect a politician, it has nothing to do with their personality. Politicians perform a function, a role…

— Boots Riley

Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his…

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

“In a democracy, there is no check against despotism, because the principle of democracy is supposed to be itself a check. But it guarantees…

— B.F. Skinner

Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true forms; but…

— Aristotle

Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government.

— Anonymous