Despotism Quote by Walter Savage Landor

Despotism is a long crime.

— Victor Hugo

The greatest of all crimes are the wars that are carried on by governments, to plunder, enslave, and destroy mankind.

— Lysander Spooner

The greatest crimes are to associate another with God, to vex your father and mother, to murder your own species, to commit suicide, and…

— Muhammad

Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

— Oscar Wilde

“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

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.

— Anonymous

But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.

— Alan Paton

The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie…

— Leo Tolstoy

The idea that laws don't apply to the law-makers is for despotic regimes.

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

The highest virtue is always against the law.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All offences come from the heart.

— William Shakespeare

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.

— John Stuart Mill