#despotism

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism. ↗

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To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave. ↗

— Denis Kearney

#aristocracy #bloated #cheap #china #despair

Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the whole history of their use. ↗

— Roger Scruton

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The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty. ↗

— George Washington

#party-dissension #party-politics #age

Universal suffrage is the only guarantee against despotism. ↗

— May Wright Sewall

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Whatever crushes individuality is despotism. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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

— Daniel Webster

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