Democracy passes into despotism.
France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.
Despotism can only exist in darkness.
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.
When men have become heartily wearied of licentious anarchy, their eagerness has been proportionately great to embrace the opposite extreme of rigorous despotism.
Man is about the same, in the main, whether with despotism, or whether with freedom.
Have them all shot. I don't want any of my workers dissatisfied.
Its authors meant it to be. . . a stumbling block to those who in after times might seek to turn a free people back into the hateful paths of despotism. They knew the proneness of prosperity to breed tyrants, and they meant when such should re-appear in this fair land and commence their vocation they should find left for them at least one hard nut to crack.
Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden.
It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less.
It is always observable that the physical and the exact sciences are the last to suffer under despotisms.
Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.
Bookishness, highest literacy, every technique of cultural propaganda and training not only can accompany bestiality and oppression and despotism but at certain points foster it.
Creativity doesn't flourish in an atmosphere of despotism, coercion and fear.
Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.
The supreme mystery of despotism, its prop and stay, is to keep men in a state of deception, and with the specious title of religion to cloak the fear by which they must be held in check, so that they will fight for their servitude as if for salvation.
The first time I read the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, my instinctive reaction was, so what’s wrong with THAT? Isn’t that the way any master plan should work? Doesn’t the public deserve - nay, demand - such despotism?
Fear must rule in a despotism.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave.