Despotism Quotes

Universal suffrage is the only guarantee against despotism.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

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

Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.

Religions are the cradles of despotism.

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

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

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

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.

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

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

Democracy passes into despotism.

The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery.

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous.

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave.

Despotism is a long crime.

The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.