Quotes about Despots

Despots and democratic majorities are drunk with power. Votes: 3

Despots prefer the friendship of the dog, who, unjustly mistreated and debased, still loves and serves the man who wronged him. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much. Votes: 2

Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states. Votes: 2

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis. Votes: 2

Enlightened despots are mythical creatures; real despots seem more interested in stealing money or installing their sons after them. Votes: 2

Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 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. Votes: 2

Even enlightened despots don't make very good teachers. Votes: 0

One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one. Votes: 0

Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots. Votes: 0

Providence has given the United States the duty of extending Christian civilization. We come as ministering angels, not despots. Votes: 0

It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order. Votes: 0

The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despots dread of a newspaper that laughs. Votes: 0

Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery. Votes: 0

The consent of the governed" is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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, Votes: 0