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Despotism Quotes

France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams Picture Quote #1

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable Picture Quote #1

Under a presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

There was one species of despotism under which he had long groaned, and that was petticoat government Picture Quote #1

I always said a good despotism was the best form of government; and I am twice as much in favour of it now I see what a quorum is! Picture Quote #1

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She felt in her mind the consciousness that she was entitled to hold a higher rank from her merit, than the arbitrary despotism of religious prejudice permitted her to aspire to Picture Quote #1

A long war almost always places nations in the wretched alternative of being abandoned to ruin by defeat or to despotism by success Picture Quote #1

Despotism alone can provide that atmosphere of secrecy which favors crooked dealing and enables the freebooters of finance to make illicit fortunes Picture Quote #1

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart Picture Quote #1

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men Picture Quote #1

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government - that is despotism Picture Quote #1

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Despotism, which we regard with abhorrence, is rather too plausible in decaying feudal, agrarian, pastoral societies. That's why we must expect to have many a defeat before we'll have an ultimate victory in this contest with Communism Picture Quote #1

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism Picture Quote #1

There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs, as protection against political despotism Picture Quote #1

A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body Picture Quote #1

Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement Picture Quote #1

There is no history worthy of attention but that of a free people; the history of a people subjected to despotism is only a collection of anecdotes Picture Quote #1

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When men have become heartily wearied of licentious anarchy, their eagerness has been proportionately great to embrace the opposite extreme of rigorous despotism Picture Quote #1

Any government, that is its own judge of, and determines authoritatively for the people, what are its own powers over the people, is an absolute government of course. It has all the powers that it chooses to exercise. There is no other or at least no more accurate definition of a despotism than this Picture Quote #1

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism Picture Quote #1

Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous Picture Quote #1

The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off Picture Quote #1

Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man Picture Quote #1

Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by one Picture Quote #1

Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than their preachings Picture Quote #1

Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism Picture Quote #1

People forgot that industry is not an end in itself, but should be only a means to insure to man his material subsistence and to make accessible to him the blessings of a higher intellectual culture. Where industry is everything and man is nothing begins the realm of a ruthless economic despotism whose workings are no less disastrous than those of any political despotism Picture Quote #1

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France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams (Despotism Quotes) So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable (Despotism Quotes) Under a presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns (Despotism Quotes) 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 (Despotism Quotes) There was one species of despotism under which he had long groaned, and that was petticoat government (Despotism Quotes) I always said a good despotism was the best form of government; and I am twice as much in favour of it now I see what a quorum is! (Despotism Quotes) She felt in her mind the consciousness that she was entitled to hold a higher rank from her merit, than the arbitrary despotism of religious prejudice permitted her to aspire to (Despotism Quotes) A long war almost always places nations in the wretched alternative of being abandoned to ruin by defeat or to despotism by success (Despotism Quotes) Despotism alone can provide that atmosphere of secrecy which favors crooked dealing and enables the freebooters of finance to make illicit fortunes (Despotism Quotes) Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart (Despotism Quotes) Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men (Despotism Quotes) When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government - that is despotism (Despotism Quotes) Despotism, which we regard with abhorrence, is rather too plausible in decaying feudal, agrarian, pastoral societies. That's why we must expect to have many a defeat before we'll have an ultimate victory in this contest with Communism (Despotism Quotes) Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism (Despotism Quotes) There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs, as protection against political despotism (Despotism Quotes) A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body (Despotism Quotes) Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement (Despotism Quotes) There is no history worthy of attention but that of a free people; the history of a people subjected to despotism is only a collection of anecdotes (Despotism Quotes) When men have become heartily wearied of licentious anarchy, their eagerness has been proportionately great to embrace the opposite extreme of rigorous despotism (Despotism Quotes) Any government, that is its own judge of, and determines authoritatively for the people, what are its own powers over the people, is an absolute government of course. It has all the powers that it chooses to exercise. There is no other or at least no more accurate definition of a despotism than this (Despotism Quotes) Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism (Despotism Quotes) Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous (Despotism Quotes) The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off (Despotism Quotes) Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor (Despotism Quotes) 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 (Despotism Quotes) 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 princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man (Despotism Quotes) Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by one (Despotism Quotes) Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than their preachings (Despotism Quotes) Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism (Despotism Quotes) People forgot that industry is not an end in itself, but should be only a means to insure to man his material subsistence and to make accessible to him the blessings of a higher intellectual culture. Where industry is everything and man is nothing begins the realm of a ruthless economic despotism whose workings are no less disastrous than those of any political despotism (Despotism Quotes)

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