Despot Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages über Despot:

A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot. Thomas Babington Macaulay

Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity.

Lajos Kossuth

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

Frank Herbert

Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much.

Bill Owens

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.

Eric Hoffer

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

A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous.

William Wells Brown

We always make the mistake in the United States of America in Democratic or Republican administrations alike is we tend to embrace the despot that's least troublesome to us. That should not be the way we view things.

Anthony Weiner

The Huron and Iroquois forests are peopled by my friends; with me, the despots of Europe and their courts are the savages.

Marquis de Lafayette

No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed to serve the despot is the bitterest, the saddest matter of history; it is the saddest sight in our own day.

Richard Jefferies

There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.

Demosthenes

Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.

Demosthenes

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.

Mikhail Bakunin

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

Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.

Marguerite Gardiner

Mugabe's become a disgrace to Africa. And I must say this because I am an African and a lot of us looked up to him back in the 1980s when he was the liberation hero. But he's now turned himself into a murderous despot.

George Ayittey