(19 quotes found)
“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
“Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.”
Oscar Wilde
“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
“Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may”
Daniel Webster
“Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states”
Demosthenes
“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.”
Abraham Lincoln
