Words matter. These are the best Despotism Quotes from famous people such as William Floyd, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, William Wells Brown, Viktor Orban, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous.
The Hungarians, by nature, are not extreme. They become more extreme only when they are forced to fight for their freedom, as was in the case in the uprising against the communists in 1956 or the revolution against the Austrian Empire. They will not turn extreme in the name of despotism.
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.
We should not underestimate that: the Chinese people’s ignorance. Thousands of years of despotism had been such a poison that their understanding of modern politics is even inferior to that of the black slaves and other immigrants.
Religions are the cradles of despotism.
I am astonished but not discouraged by my enormous responsibility. Devoted both from affection and duty to the cause of the people, I shall combat with equal ardor aristocracy, despotism, and faction.
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.
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.
Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
Despotism is a long crime.
Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism – including, of course, legal despotism?
Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.
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.
At its best, management theory is part of the democratic promise of America. It aims to replace the despotism of the old bosses with the rule of scientific law. It offers economic power to all who have the talent and energy to attain it.
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.
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.
Protestants in France are under intolerable despotism. Although open persecution does not now exist, yet it depends upon the whim of the king, queen, parliament, or any of the ministry.
Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.
When I’m making something, I’ve always felt in charge and therefore able to call the shots. But what you’ve got to do is stop that turning into arrogance or despotism!
Democracy passes into despotism.
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 chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.
The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.
Any government, that is its own judge of, and determines authoritatively for the people, what are its own powers over the people, is an absolute government of course. It has all the powers that it chooses to exercise. There is no other or at least no more accurate definition of a despotism than this.
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.
I do not want history to record me as someone who has bequeathed to his nation the institution of despotism.
We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.
Never may a man prone to believe scandal be a despot or a popular leader! Under his guidance, democracy itself will be despotism.
Throwing off despotism and tyranny is our history and part of our national identity – something in which we can take incredible pride.
