No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.
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.
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?
Law And Freedom without Violence (Anarchy) Law And Violence without Freedom (Despotism) Violence without Freedom And Law (Barbarism) Violence with Freedom And Law (Republic)
The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.
Every State is a despotism, be the despot one or many.
Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.
The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
All men are created equal, except Negroes.
The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less.
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.
We are ruled by chance but never have enough patience to accept its despotism.
Military despotism represses generous sentiments, priestly tyranny stifles them.
An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.
War lives on despotism and is not waged with God's love.
Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.
What astonishing changes a few years are capable of producing! I am told that even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror. From thinking proceeds speaking, thence to acting is often but a single step. But how irrevocable & tremendous! What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal & falacious! Would to God that wise measures may be taken in time to avert the consequences we have but too much reason to apprehend.
Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.
Despotism can do without faith but freedom cannot.