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Despotism Quotes - Page 2

Fear must rule in a despotism.

Fear must rule in a despotism.

Lajos Kossuth
Despotism

The progress of despotism tends to disappoint its own purpose.

Edward Gibbon
Progress, Purpose, Despotism

Man is about the same, in the main, whether with despotism, or whether with freedom.

Walt Whitman
Men, Government, Despotism
Walt Whitman (2012). “Specimen Days & Collect”, p.330, Courier Corporation

It is always observable that the physical and the exact sciences are the last to suffer under despotisms.

Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Suffering, Lasts, Despotism

Military despotism represses generous sentiments, priestly tyranny stifles them.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Military, Despotism, Tyranny

Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Tyrants, Democracy, Despotism
Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.39

The despotism of custom is on the wane. We are not content to know that things are; we ask whether they ought to be.

John Stuart Mill
Despotism, Customs, Ought

Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.

Honore de Balzac
Liberty, Trouble, Despotism

No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
Despotism, Formidable

A people among whom custom is altogether sovereign endures the despotism of the dead.

Bertrand de Jouvenel
People, Sovereign, Despotism
Bertrand de Jouvenel (1952). “Power: the natural history of its growth”, London, Batchworth P

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