55 Quotes About Despotism

Despotisms are founded on cowards, democracies on fools.

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may

But now I understand something more fully that I once only understood abstractly. I see how utterly ridiculous it is to think that the state can be the right means to help those who are poor or living at the margins of society. The state is their enemy, as it is for everyone else.

Despotism despieses nothing so much as righteousness in its victims

The foremost, or indeed the sole condition, which is required in order to succeed in centralizing the supreme power in a democratic community, is to love equality, or to get men to believe you love it. Thus, the science of despotism, which was once so complex, is simplified, and reduced, as it were, to a single principle.

Man does not necessarily begin with despotism because he is barbarous, but very often finds his way to despotism because he is civilised. He finds it because he is experienced; or, what is often much the same thing, because he is exhausted

Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.

I must admit that I feel that the best form of government is benevolent despotism.

The fall of moral civilization has always been brought about by those who were "just doing their jobs".