26 Despotism Quotes for You to Enjoy

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. George Washington

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Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments. Alexander Hamilton

Democracy Liberty Despotism Extremes Neither Real Governments Moderate Found

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

Strength Fear Power Despotism Consists Wholly Resistance

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. Abraham Lincoln

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. Barry Goldwater

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Democracy passes into despotism. Plato

Government Democracy Despotism Passes

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. Angelina Grimke

Obedience Power Blind Obedience Submission Ought Despotism Civil Unqualified Ecclesiastical Doctrine Blind Any Human Whether Place Republicans Human Power Among Christians

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. Thomas Jefferson

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

Freedom Poverty Our Despotism Possessions Secured Strongest Since Desires

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

Become Despotism Rule No-One Bureaucracy Modern Form

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism. Thomas Jefferson

Despotism Immediate Vital Parent Force Principle

Equating brutality and despotism with leadership is not an American value. Jake Tapper

Leadership Value Despotism Brutality American

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. James Madison

Darkness Political Too Despotism Everywhere Only Remain Almost Firmament Lights Permit Exist Done Anywhere Many Now

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. Lysander Spooner

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. Marquis de Lafayette

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Religions are the cradles of despotism. Marquis de Sade

Despotism Religions

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. Matthew Stewart

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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. Sun Yat-sen

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

Liberty Despotism Expect Translated

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. Viktor Orban

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

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