#despot

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be. ↗

— Arabella Weir

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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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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

#freedom #freedom

I love my country, not my government. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

#bill-of-rights #constitution #despotism #freedom #government

If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness. ↗

— Voltaire

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Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force. ↗

— George Orwell

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Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence. ↗

— Aeschylus

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Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards. ↗

— Aeschines

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