Despotically Quotes

#1. Political decisions are by definition monopolistic, disenfranchising and despotically majoritarian; markets are good at supplying minority needs.

Matt Ridley

#2. In a democracy, there is no check against despotism, because the principle of democracy is supposed to be itself a check. But it guarantees only that the majority will not be despotically ruled.

B.F. Skinner

#3. I will believe in the right of one man to govern a nation despotically when I find a man born unto the world with boots and spurs, and a nation with saddles on their backs.

Algernon Sidney

#4. ESC had nothing to do with setting taxes or chasing down tax evaders - that was the World Government's job.

Eliza Green

#5. Madison Avenue is full of masochists who unconsciously provoke rejection by their clients. I know brilliant men who have lost every account they have ever handled.

David Ogilvy

#6. Caesar's kindnesses are conscious, done for Caesar's benefit, and Caesar no longer sees the world as a place wherein magical things can occur. Because they can't. Men and women ruin it with their impulses, desires, thoughtlessness, lack of intelligence and cupidity.

Colleen McCullough

#7. I started piano lessons when I was four; I was being classically trained at the Colburn School.

Jacqueline Emerson

#8. I am cursed with the inability to sleep on planes - ever.

Scott Wilson