Quotes with despotism

  • 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.
  • If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.

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  • Voltaire If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Joseph De Maistre 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.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • G.W.F. Hegel The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Mary McCarthy Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Oscar Wilde Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Thomas Carlyle France was a long despotism tempered by epigrams.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Michel Foucault Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
    Michel Foucault
    French essayist and philosopher (1926 - 1984)
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  • Abraham Lincoln 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
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Marquis de Sade Religions are the cradles of despotism.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Walter Bagehot So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • John Stuart Mill The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Angelina Grimké 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 Grimké
    American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879)
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  • Thomas Jefferson 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
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Walter Bagehot Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • John Stuart Mill What ever crushes individuality is despotism, no matter what name it is called.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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