The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement. Votes: 4
John Stuart MillIs not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism? Votes: 4
Frederic BastiatWe are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed. Votes: 4
Thomas JeffersonDespotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Votes: 4
Oscar WildeDespotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many. Votes: 3
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonDespotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom. Votes: 3
Walter Savage LandorThe strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance. Votes: 2
Thomas PaineThe more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface. Votes: 2
Elizabeth Cady StantonMilitary despotism represses generous sentiments, priestly tyranny stifles them. Votes: 0
Napoleon BonaparteSummation of Leviathan: "The axiom, fear; the method, logic; the conclusion, despotism." Votes: 0
Hugh Redwald Trevor-RoperNo despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system. Votes: 0
Georg C. LichtenbergWe are ruled by chance but never have enough patience to accept its despotism. Votes: 0
Edward DahlbergA people among whom custom is altogether sovereign endures the despotism of the dead. Votes: 0
Bertrand De JouvenelMan is about the same, in the main, whether with despotism, or whether with freedom. Votes: 0
Walt WhitmanRepublican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it. Votes: 0
Napoleon BonaparteOther offences, even the greatest, are the violation of one law: despotism is the violation of all. Votes: 0
Walter Savage Landor