Despotism Quotes

Despotism Quotes

Walter Bagehot

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism -- despotism during the campaign -- is indispensable.

Denis Diderot

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into ...

Victor Hugo

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on ...

Joseph De Maistre

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

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 ...

Simone Weil

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

The real stumbling-block of totalitarian r?gimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a ...

Oscar Wilde

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes ...

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