Top 48 Quotes About Despots
#1. The lust of dominion innovates so imperceptibly that we become complete despots before our wanton abuse of power is perceived; the tyranny first exercised in the nursery is exhibited in various shapes and degrees in every stage of our existence.
Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
#2. The sea does not belong to despots. Upon its surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear one another to pieces, and be carried away with terrestrial horrors. But at thirty feet below its level, their reign ceases, their influence is quenched, and their power disappears.
Jules Verne
#3. Artemis and Holly stood together in their underwear, gingerly locking fingers. They had crossed space and time together, weathered rebellions and tangled with demented despots. Coughed blood, lost digits, inhaled dwarf fumes and swapped eyeballs, yet they found holding hands awkward.
Eoin Colfer
#4. There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.
Demosthenes
#5. One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one.
James Madison
#6. The constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruption's of time and party, its members would become despots.
Thomas Jefferson
#7. Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous.
William Wells Brown
#8. The consent of the governed is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well.
Walter Lippmann
#9. Despots govern by terror. They know that he who fears God fears nothing else; and therefore they eradicate from the mind, through their Voltaire, their Helvetius, and the rest of that infamous gang, that only sort of fear which generates true courage.
Edmund Burke
#10. There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.
Oscar Wilde
#11. Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity.
Lajos Kossuth
#12. Yeah, you're sitting in a tree because you're fine. That's easy to see. I can't believe this is Maximum Ride, destroyer of despots, warrior hottie, leader of the flock! All you need now to make yourself more pathetic is a pint of Ben and Jerry's ice cream!
James Patterson
#14. The worst kind of poison for despots: truth.
Kay Kenyon
#15. being an only child - you grow up knowing you aren't allowed to disappoint, you're not even allowed to die. There isn't a replacement toddling around; you're it. It makes you desperate to be flawless, and it also makes you drunk with the power. In such ways are despots made.
Gillian Flynn
#16. Ignorant, unconscious and dishonourable part of a society want and like kings, dictators, padishahs and all sort of despots; educated, conscious and honourable part of the same society hate and refuse monarchs, tyrants, oppressors and any kind of autocrats!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#17. 173 despots would surely be as oppressive as one," wrote Jefferson in 1785 in his Notes on the State of Virginia. "An elective despotism was not the government we fought for."31
Gordon S. Wood
#18. Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.
Democritus
#19. Even enlightened despots don't make very good teachers.
Marilyn Wallace
#20. Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. The writer doubles and trebles the power of writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people.
Victor Hugo
#21. The public is despotic in its temper; it is capable of denying common justice when too strenuously demanded as a right; but quite as frequently it awards more than justice, when the appeal is made, as despots love to have it made, entirely to its generosity.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#22. Born evil? I know of no such person, even in the annals of crime or in the biographies of despots. The answer here is no.
Michael H. Stone
#23. Despots are elected and deposed.
Laws are passed and repealed.
Nations rise and fall.
Individual liberty is eternal.
A.E. Samaan
#24. The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despots dread of a newspaper that laughs.
Mark Twain
#25. Their world is governed by children, little despots whose needs - school and camp and activities and tutors - dictate every decision, and will for the next ten, fifteen, eighteen years[...] Having children has provided their adulthood with an instant and nonnegotiable sense of purpose and direction.
Hanya Yanagihara
#26. The end of despots is always odd?exhilarating to those who suffered their tyrannies, and to those who hold despotism in contempt, and anti-climatic at the same time, the discovery that these tyrants were petty, frightened men after all.
Fouad Ajami
#27. The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best.
Plato
#28. Stable government requires the free consent of those ruled. Tyranny, even the tyranny of benevolent despots, cannot bring lasting peace and prosperity. There
Ludwig Von Mises
#29. Providence has given the United States the duty of extending Christian civilization. We come as ministering angels, not despots.
Knute Nelson
#30. It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.
Thomas Jefferson
#31. Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
Demosthenes
#32. History teaches that, when powerful despots can gain something
through aggression, they try, by the same methods, to gain more and
more and more.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#33. Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much.
Bill Owens
#34. I'm thinking of a God very different from the God of the Christian and far and away from the God of Islam, because both are depicted as omnipotent Oriental despots, cosmic Saddam Husseins,
Antony Flew
#35. In a place like this, there would be petty despots. Factions. This was a sunless world where madness and depravity reigned.
Ann Aguirre
#36. Last chances in the Middle East have been two a dirham since the 1950s. Each year the enmities are more profound, the despots more bloodthirsty and clownish, the violence more extreme, and the conditions of ordinary existence more ghastly.
James Buchan
#37. History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.
Robert Kiyosaki
#38. Despots prefer the friendship of the dog, who, unjustly mistreated and debased, still loves and serves the man who wronged him.
Charles Fourier
#39. When the last of the Reformers died, religion, instead of emancipating the nations, had become an excuse for the criminal art of despots. Calvin preached, and Bellarmine lectured; but Machiavelli reigned.
Lord Acton
#40. Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots.
John Adams
#41. The Huron and Iroquois forests are peopled by my friends; with me, the despots of Europe and their courts are the savages.
Marquis De Lafayette
#42. Enlightened despots are mythical creatures; real despots seem more interested in stealing money or installing their sons after them.
Elliott Abrams
#43. A free and open Internet is a despot's worst enemy.
Jay Samit
#45. Earthquake means destruction; dictator means destruction! In the case of earthquake, you need a strong building; in the case of dictator, you need an educated rational mind, because an irrational ignorant mind always serves the dictator!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#46. A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone.
Samuel Johnson
#47. Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
George Orwell
#48. Every State is a despotism, be the despot one or many.
Max Stirner
