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When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa (Despotic Quotes)
The ire of a despotic king Rides forth upon destruction’s wing (Despotic Quotes)
Honor is unknown in despotic states (Despotic Quotes)
All power, even the most despotic, rests ultimately on opinion (Despotic Quotes)
Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic (Despotic Quotes)
Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition (Despotic Quotes)
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic (Despotic Quotes)
There is no tyranny so despotic as that of public opinion among a free people (Despotic Quotes)
Despotic rules are attempting to deprive women of their rights (Despotic Quotes)
Power is always right, weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic (Despotic Quotes)
Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality (Despotic Quotes)
All great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ungracious and indelicate as generals, because they are confident of their impunity (Despotic Quotes)
Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone (Despotic Quotes)
The concentrating of powers in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one (Despotic Quotes)
A single legislature, on account of the superabundance of its power, and the uncontrolled rabidity of its execution, becomes as dangerous to the principles of liberty as that of a despotic monarch (Despotic Quotes)
It is impossible to grasp the meaning of the idea of sound money if one does not realize that it was devised as an instrument for the protection of civil liberties against despotic inroads on the part of governments (Despotic Quotes)
It is obvious that the most despotic forms of social organization would be suitable for inert men who are satisfied with the situation fate has placed them in, and that the most abstract form of democratic theory would be practicable among sages guided only by their reason. The only problem is to what degree it is possible to excite or to contain the passions without endangering public happiness (Despotic Quotes)
Let us pass to the despotic part of the soul, spirit. We must not eliminate it utterly from the youth nor yet allow him to use it all the time. Let us train boys from earliest childhood to be patient when they suffer wrongs themselves, but, if they see another being wronged, to sally forth courageously and aid the sufferer in fitting measure (Despotic Quotes)
And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as utterly divested, now and during the rest of my life, of any such rights, the barbarous relics of a feudal, despotic system (Despotic Quotes)
Under the all-encompassing aid system, too many places in Africa continue to flounder under inept, corrupt and despotic regimes who spend their time courting and catering to the demands of the army of aid organizations. (Despotic Quotes)
The general rule always holds good. In constitutional states liberty is a compensation of the heaviness of taxation. In despotic states the equivalent for liberty is the lightness of taxation (Despotic Quotes)
It is on opinion only that government is founded; and this maxim extends to the most despotic and most military governments, as well as to the most free and most popular (Despotic Quotes)
The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream (Despotic Quotes)
The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it (Despotic Quotes)
But in all despotic governments, though a particular prince may favour arts and letter, there is a natural degeneracy of mankind (Despotic Quotes)
Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone. (Despotic Quotes)
The will of the nation is one of those expressions which have been most profusely abused by the wily and the despotic of every age (Despotic Quotes)
Slave power crushes freedom of speech and of opinion. Slave power degrades labor. Slave power is arrogant, is jealous and intrusive, is cruel, is despotic, not only over the slave but over the community, the state (Despotic Quotes)
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual (Despotic Quotes)
The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people (Despotic Quotes)
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