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Despotism Quotes

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?

Frederic Bastiat
Liberty, Destruction, Despotism
Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.41, Cosimo, Inc.

War lives on despotism and is not waged with God's love.

Simon Bolivar
War, Despotism, God's Love

To begin with unlimited freedom is to end with unlimited despotism.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ends, Unlimited, Despotism

Despotism can only exist in darkness.

James Madison
Darkness, Firmament, Despotism
James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Moving, Tyrants, Despotism
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”

Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one.

Andrew Johnson
Freedom, Democracy, Despotism
"Presidential Government in the United States: The Unwritten Constitution". Book by Caleb Perry Patterson, 1947.

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.

John Stuart Mill
Advancement, Standing Alone, Despotism
John Stuart Mill (1989). “J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings”, p.70, Cambridge University Press

Every State is a despotism, be the despot one or many.

Max Stirner
States, Despotism, Despots
Max Stirner (1993). “The Ego and His Own”, p.253, Lulu.com

Honor is unknown in despotic states.

Baron de Montesquieu
Honor, States, Despotism

The Puritans nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedim, where they could not only enjoy their own religion, but could prevent everybody else from enjoyin his.

Artemas Ward
Land, Puritan, Despotism
London Punch Letters, No. 5, 1866.

Despotism can do without faith but freedom cannot.

Alexis de Tocqueville
Despotism, Tyranny, Can Do
Alexis de Tocqueville (2012). “Democracy in America”, p.282, University of Chicago Press

As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.

Abraham Lincoln
War, Men, Despotism
Letter to Joshua F. Speed, 24 Aug. 1855

Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.

Walter Savage Landor
Despotism, Secure
Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.140

Have them all shot. I don't want any of my workers dissatisfied.

Charlie Chaplin
Want, Despotism, Shots

Despotism and freedom of the press cannot exist together.

Leon Gambetta
Political, Together, Despotism

France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.

Thomas Carlyle
Long, France, Despotism
History of the French Revolution vol. 3, bk. 7, ch. 7 (1837)

The worst of all States is the democratic State.

Pierre Corneille
Democracy, Despotism, States

The leading princes are the most servile tools of English despotism. . . . The native princes are the stronghold of the present abominable English system.

Karl Marx
Tools, Despotism, Strongholds

There was one species of despotism under which he had long groaned, and that was petticoat government.

Washington Irving
Government, Long, Despotism
Washington Irving (1999). “Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories”, p.58, Penguin

Other offences, even the greatest, are the violation of one law: despotism is the violation of all.

Walter Savage Landor
Law, Despotism, Violation
Walter Savage Landor (1826). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.60

Nothing renders a nation so despicable as religious despotism.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Religious, Despotism, Despicable

What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and fallacious.

George Washington
Liberty, Triumph, Despotism
George Washington, Jared Sparks (1837). “The Writings of George Washington: Life of Washington”, p.426

It's political Daddyism and it's as old as demagogues and despotism.

Barry Goldwater
Political, Despotism
"Nation: The Underdog Underdog". content.time.com. November 06, 1964.

Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.

Arabella Weir
Despotism, Cracked
"Auditions are hell, but I never thought that I would have to go through 'casting' to get on Newsnight - and fail" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2006.

Despotism is a long crime.

Victor Hugo
Long, Crime, Despotism

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