Despotism Quotes

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

The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it...

From this moment there would be no question of virtue or morality; for despotism cui ex honesto null...

I love my country, not my government.

Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their i...

Even despotism does not produce its worst effects, so long as individuality exists under it; and wha...

Europeans have sometimes been beguiled by a despotism that comes concealed in the seductive form of ...

Democracy passes into despotism.

The peoples owe all political rights and privileges which we enjoy today in greater or lesser measur...

It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.

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

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

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions,...

As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all...

The foremost, or indeed the sole condition, which is required in order to succeed in centralizing th...

A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limi...

The actions of government, we are told, bear down only on imprudent souls who provoke them. The man ...

Russell observes that "the merits of democracy are negative: it does not ensure good government, but...