Top Despotism Quotes
Democracy passes into despotism.
Plato
The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
Thomas Paine
Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
Thomas Jefferson
Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
Barry Goldwater
Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.
James Madison
May Wright Sewall 
William Wells Brown 
William Henry Harrison 
Thomas Jefferson 
Marquis de Sade 
Georg Buchner 
Honore De Balzac 
William Floyd 
Plato All Despotism Quotes
The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
Thomas Paine 
63% of people like this quote
Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
Thomas Jefferson
62% of people like this quote
Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.
James Madison
57% of people like this quote
Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
Barry Goldwater
57% of people like this quote
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
John Stuart Mill
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Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate.
William Floyd
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