Despotisms Quotes

#1. Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, the other of granting it.

James Madison

#2. The source of the terror in Lebanon as in Iraq is to be found in the Koran and in the despotisms of the Arab Middle East.

David Horowitz

#3. Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

Aristotle.

#4. All such men are, or ought to be, agreed, that simple governments are despotisms; and of all despotisms, a democracy, though the least durable, is the most violent.

Fisher Ames

#5. It is always observable that the physical and the exact sciences are the last to suffer under despotisms.

Richard Henry Dana Jr.

#6. The command of the old despotisms was "Thou shalt not". The command of the totalitarians was "Thou shalt". Our command is "Thou art".

George Orwell

#7. I suppose everyone finds the despotisms of other peoples hard to comprehend.

Amitav Ghosh

#8. I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain.

Conrad Veidt

#9. HELPED are those whose ever act is a prayer for harmony in the Universe, for they are the restorers of balance to our planet. To them will be given the insight that every good act done anywhere in the cosmos welcomes the life of an animal or a child.

Alice Walker

#10. Though our holy religion teaches us to be for peace, yet it does not forbid us to provide for war.

Matthew Henry

#11. Hip-Hop is my vehicle to scientific and universal enlightenment

GZA

#12. I do not have the answers and as a woman I do not intend to play my own thoughts over the truth. I can clearly state the problems and tell you that I suffer from them.

Lynette Fromme

#13. I am called here to answer before you, but I hear no things laid to my charge.

Anne Hutchinson