"Man is about the same, in the main,……" — Walt Whitman
"Man is about the same, in the main, whether with despotism, or whether with freedom."
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422 Quotes by Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman has 422 quotes on this site.
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And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future, And…
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O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet…
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Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.
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This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat.
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To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.
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The city sleeps and the country sleeps, the living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time, the…
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What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many…
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I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at…
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Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.
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To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim - the rocks - the motion of the…
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All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain.
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What beauty there is in words; what a lurking curious charm in the sound some words.
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More Despotism Quotes
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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
— Aristotle
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Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
— Honore de Balzac
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We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions-a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is…
— Alexander Hamilton
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You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness,…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world,…
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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If the perpetual oscillation of nations between anarchy and despotism is to be replaced by the steady march of self-restraining…
— Thomas Huxley
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Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished…
— Honore de Balzac
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An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true…
— Thomas Jefferson
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If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less…
— Herbert Spencer
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