Despotism Quote by Walt Whitman Download Open image “Man is about the same, in the main, whether with despotism, or whether with freedom.” — Walt Whitman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Despotism Freedom Government Inspirational Men
All man are the same except for their belief in their own selves, regardless of what others may think of them — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Man is man because he is free to operate within the framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I believe a man is better anchored who has a belief in the Supreme Being. — James Cash Penney Copy Share Image
“Man does not necessarily begin with despotism because he is barbarous, but very often finds his way to despotism because he is civilised. He… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Man, the more he gains freedom in the sense of emerging from the original oneness with man and nature and the more he becomes… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
A man is a little thing whilst he works by and for himself, but, when he gives voice to the rules of love and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Man is a paradoxical being - the constant glory and scandal of this world. — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Copy Share Image
In this thing one man is superior to another, that he is better able to bear adversity and prosperity. — Philemon Copy Share Image
No man has a more perfect reliance on the alwise and powerful dispensations of the Supreme Being than I have, nor thinks His aid… — George Washington Copy Share Image
In times of anarchy one may seem a despot in order to be a saviour. — Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau Copy Share Image
Man is the same today that he has always been. He is a rebel against God. He may, in some generations, hide his rebellion… — Donald Barnhouse Copy Share Image
O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Each of us inevitable, Each of us limitless—each of us with his or her right upon the earth, Each of us allow'd the eternal… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Comerado, this is no book,Who touches this, touches a man,(Is it night? Are we here alone?)It is I you hold, and who holds you,I… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I think I could always live with animals. The more you're around people, the more you love animals. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me and the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Neither should men study war with a view to the enslavement of those who do not deserve to be enslaved; but first of all… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and founder of… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
A court which yields to the popular will thereby licenses itself to practice despotism, for there can be no assurance that it will not,… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
