“Religions are the cradles of despotism.”
Marquis De Sade
“Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.”
Oscar Wilde
“The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.”
Aristotle
“Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism”
Mary McCarthy
“It's political Daddyism and it's as old as demagogues and despotism.”
Barry Goldwater
“Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may”
Daniel Webster
