Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by one.
The worst of all States is the democratic State.
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.
Military despotism represses generous sentiments, priestly tyranny stifles them.
An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.
The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
There is this of good in real evils; they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were imaginary.
Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence.
The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny
Despotism may be able to do without religion, but democracy cannot.
Man is about the same, in the main, whether with despotism, or whether with freedom.
Creativity doesn't flourish in an atmosphere of despotism, coercion and fear.
Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice-- The weakness and the wickedness of luxury-- The negligence--the apathy--the evils Of sensual sloth--produces ten thousand tyrants, Whose delegated cruelty surpasses The worst acts of one energetic master, However harsh and hard in his own bearing.
The moment you introduce a despotism in the world of thought, you succeed in making hypocrites - and you get in such a position that you never know what your neighbor thinks.
It is always observable that the physical and the exact sciences are the last to suffer under despotisms.
No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.
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.
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.
The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.
