Quotes Tagged With :despotism

First Afghanistan, now Iraq. So who's next? Syria? North Korea? Iran? Where will it all end?' If these....

The foremost, or indeed the sole condition, which is required in order to succeed in centralizing the....

The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it....

Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can....

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

Ethics and oversight are what you eliminate when you want absolute power.

From this moment there would be no question of virtue or morality; for despotism cui ex honesto nulla....

The actions of government, we are told, bear down only on imprudent souls who provoke them. The man who....

Democracy passes into despotism.

Russell observes that "the merits of democracy are negative: it does not ensure good government, but....