10 Despotic Quotes for You to Enjoy

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people. Tom Clancy

Government Knowledge You People Knowledge Is Power Power Control Despotic Something Particularly Does Always Form Information Elite

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual. Frank Herbert

Government You Wise Will Master Sense Think Despot Despotic His Subjects Create Certain Your Popular Therefore Helpless Among

Under the all-encompassing aid system, too many places in Africa continue to flounder under inept, corrupt and despotic regimes who spend their time courting and catering to the demands of the army of aid organizations. Dambisa Moyo

Time Army Too Aid Spend Despotic System Corrupt Demands Catering Inept Courting Continue Africa Places Regimes Organizations Who Many

How can this full, perfect, just and supreme voice of the people, embodied in the Constitution, be brought to bear, habitually and steadily, in counteracting the fatal tendency of the government to the absolute and despotic control of the numerical majority? John C. Calhoun

I hold it to be the most monstrous proposition ever uttered within the Senate that conquering a country like Mexico, the President can constitute himself a despotic ruler without the slightest limitation on his power. If all this be true, war is indeed dangerous! John C. Calhoun

War Dangerous Be True Power Country President Monstrous Despotic Indeed Ruler Slightest Constitute Proposition True Like Most Himself Within Without Limitation His Mexico Senate Hold Conquering Ever Uttered

We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there. Judd Gregg

Change Despotic Totalitarian Invaded Been Iraq Regime Successful

If it be said that the consent of the strongest party in a nation, is all that is necessary to justify the establishment of a government that shall have authority over the weaker party, it may be answered that the most despotic governments in the world rest upon that very principle, viz.: the consent of the strongest party. Lysander Spooner

Government World Rest Party Nation Despotic Weaker Viz Strongest Shall Over Most Principle Said Answered Governments Very Authority May Establishment Justify Necessary Consent

The original settlers in Iceland were the nobles of Norway who left their native land to avoid the tyranny of Harold Fairhair, who tried to crush their power so as to make himself a despotic king in the land. Sabine Baring-Gould