“Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.”
Oscar Wilde
“Religions are the cradles of despotism.”
Marquis De Sade
“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
“It's political Daddyism and it's as old as demagogues and despotism.”
Barry Goldwater
“Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism”
Mary McCarthy
“Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states”
Demosthenes
