Quotes About Despotism

To hope that the growing vulnerability of a world increasingly integrated by technology will not demand a total despotism is mere foolishness.

Die Tyrannei eines Individuums ist dem Despotismus des Gesetzes vorzuziehen, denn der Tyrann ist verwundbar und das Gesetz unkörperlich.

The standard-bearers of liberty celebrated by the 19th century ended up as the vanguard of industrial despotism.

The central government was a despotism tempered by military rebellion and assassination and replacement of one scurvy lot of ruling dynasts by another. But the high politics of the city of Rome little affected the lives of the masses or even of the provincial nobility. It was the wonderful army that provided the continuity and peace that this vast population enjoyed.