quotes about Despotism
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Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by one.
-- Andrew Johnson -
Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.
-- Arabella WeirSource : "Auditions are hell, but I never thought that I would have to go through 'casting' to get on Newsnight - and fail" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2006.
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The Puritans nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedim, where they could not only enjoy their own religion, but could prevent everybody else from enjoyin his.
-- Artemas WardSource : London Punch Letters, No. 5, 1866.
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It's political Daddyism and it's as old as demagogues and despotism.
-- Barry Goldwater -
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Have them all shot. I don't want any of my workers dissatisfied.
-- Charlie Chaplin -
Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?
-- Frederic Bastiat -
No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg -
What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and fallacious.
-- George Washington -
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The despotism of custom is on the wane. We are not content to know that things are; we ask whether they ought to be.
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Despotism and freedom of the press cannot exist together.
-- Leon Gambetta -
Every State is a despotism, be the despot one or many.
-- Max StirnerSource : Max Stirner (1993). “The Ego and His Own”, p.253, Lulu.com
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It is always observable that the physical and the exact sciences are the last to suffer under despotisms.
-- Richard Henry Dana, Jr. -
War lives on despotism and is not waged with God's love.
-- Simon Bolivar -
An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.
-- Thomas Jefferson -
There was one species of despotism under which he had long groaned, and that was petticoat government.
-- Washington Irving -
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Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous.
-- William Wells BrownSource : William Wells Brown (1853). “Clotel; or, The president's daughter”, p.179
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A people among whom custom is altogether sovereign endures the despotism of the dead.
-- Bertrand de JouvenelSource : Bertrand de Jouvenel (1952). “Power: the natural history of its growth”, London, Batchworth P