#despotism

Despotism is a long crime. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism? ↗

— Frederic Bastiat

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So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

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Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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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

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Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

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

— Mary McCarthy

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Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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

— Thomas Paine

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