Quotes About Despotism

War lives on despotism and is not waged with God's love.

When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to despotism.

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery.

El público es caprichoso; es capaz de negar la justicia común cuando se le exige violentamente como un derecho, lo es también de conceder más allá de lo justo cuando el requerimiento se verifica como a los déspotas les gusta, entregándose por completo al amo.

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

Those who would have us again go to war to save democracy might give a little thought to the likelihood that we would come out of any such struggle a despotism ourselves.

Colonel Qaddafi's tyranny was absolutist, monarchical, and personal. The problem with such dictatorships is that as long as the tyrant lives, he reigns and terrorizes.

Just as communism always begins with an appeal to "humanity" and equality" and ends with inhuman despotism, so does fascism always begin with an appeal to "nationalism" and "individualism," and ends with a military collectivism far worse than the disease it purports to cure.

In today's ambiguous world, character means despotism, tyranny, absolute intolerance. At last it is time to admire a lack of character, inner weakness. Our epoch is that of noble doubts, blessed uncertainty, sacred hypersensitivity, divine wishy-washiness.

Es para imponer el despotismo, todas las guerras se han hecho para eso.

Murió porque el pueblo no insistió en que las leyes fueran observadas, se hiciera justicia y se respetara la Constitución. Sin embargo, sigue hablando de leyes, a pesar de lo que Aristóteles dijo de las repúblicas, que se convierten en democracias y degeneran en despotismos.

Republics never survive, for their people do not like freedom but prefer to be led and guided and flattered and seduced into slavery by a benevolent, or not so, benevolent despot. They want to worship Caesar. So, American republicanism will inevitably die and become a democracy, and then decline, as Aristotle said into a despotism.

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.

It seems that the inevitable fate of man is never attain complete freedom: princes everywhere tend to despotism and the people to servitude.

All men would be tyrants if they could.

Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden.

who wishes that there was a permanent, unalterable celestial despotism that subjected us to continual surveillance and could convict us of thought-crime, and who regarded us as its private property even after we died? How happy we ought to be, at the reflection that there exists not a shred of respectable evidence to support such a horrible hypothesis.

who wishes that there was a permanent, unalterable celestial despotism that subjected us to continual surveillance and could convict us of thought-crime, and who regarded us as its private property even after we died? How happy we ought to be, at the reflection that there exists not a shred of respectable evidence to support such a horrible hypothesis. And how grateful we should be to those of our predecessors who repudiated this utter negation of human freedom.

It is the nature of despotism all over the world that no man can trust any other, or be sure of the meaning of any spoken word.

You who are Prejudice, Abuse, Ignominy, Oppression, Iniquity, Despotism, Injustice, Fanaticism, beware of the wide-eyed urchin. He will grow up.

Whoever you may be, if your name is Prejudice, Abuse, Ignorance, Oppression, Iniquity, Despotism, Injustice, Fanaticism, Tyranny, beware of the gaping gamin. The little fellow will grow up.

A guerra civil? O que há a dizer? Mas haverá uma guerra estrangeira? Toda a guerra entre homens, não é a guerra entre irmãos? (...) Pois bem, a monarquia é o estrangeiro; a opressão é o estrangeiro; o direito divino é o estrangeiro. O despotismo violenta a fronteira moral, como a invasão violenta a fronteira geográfica.