Despots Quote by Victor Hugo

Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing…

— 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 individual cannot think and communicate his thought, the governor and legislator cannot act effectively or frame his laws without words, and the solidity…

— Ezra Pound

A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.

— Anonymous

Sometimes words are not enough. There are some circumstances so utterly wretched that I cannot describe them in sentences or paragraphs or even a…

— Anonymous

The end of despots is always odd?exhilarating to those who suffered their tyrannies, and to those who hold despotism in contempt, and anti-climatic at…

— Fouad Ajami

Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by one.

— Andrew Johnson

Words may be either the servants or masters. If the former they may safely guide us in the way of truth. If the latter…

— George Horne

“The fact is that very few of us know what words mean; fewer still take the trouble to enquire. We calmly, we carelessly assume…

— Aleister Crowley

“So long as our untried senses and our naïve heart recognize themselves and delight in the universe of qualifications, they flourish with the aid…

— Emil Cioran

Words become sentences, twisted, difficult/The story weaves itself, always noisiest at night/As herds of words won't stop. .

— Ritu Ghatourey

The writer must be able to revel and roll in the abundance of words; he must know not only the direct but also the…

— Anonymous