Despotismus / Despotism Zitate auf Englisch

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Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart. Honore de Balzac

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

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

John Stuart Mill

The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.

Angelina Grimke

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

Frederic Bastiat

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

Thomas Paine

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

Edward Gibbon

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

At its best, management theory is part of the democratic promise of America. It aims to replace the despotism of the old bosses with the rule of scientific law. It offers economic power to all who have the talent and energy to attain it.

Matthew Stewart

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

Thomas Jefferson

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

Thomas Jefferson

Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.

Samuel Horsley

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

Walter Bagehot

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

William Wells Brown

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

Honore de Balzac

We should not underestimate that: the Chinese people's ignorance. Thousands of years of despotism had been such a poison that their understanding of modern politics is even inferior to that of the black slaves and other immigrants.

Sun Yat-sen

Protestants in France are under intolerable despotism. Although open persecution does not now exist, yet it depends upon the whim of the king, queen, parliament, or any of the ministry.

Marquis de Lafayette

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

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

Arabella Weir

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

Religions are the cradles of despotism.

Marquis de Sade

Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery.

Daniel De Leon

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

Michel Foucault

Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate.

William Floyd

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.

Georg Buchner

Democracy passes into despotism.

Plato

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

Daniel Webster

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government - that is despotism.

Abraham Lincoln

When I'm making something, I've always felt in charge and therefore able to call the shots. But what you've got to do is stop that turning into arrogance or despotism!

Armando Iannucci

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

Alexander Hamilton