Despots Quotes

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

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

There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People. - Oscar Wilde

The fact that Democrat leaders in Texas and nationally are attempting to use the criminal-justice system to achieve the political victories that they failed to win at the ballot box makes them no better than Third World despots who impose their political will by jailing their opponents. - James Ellis

The council is in some ways worse than what we had before, because it lends a veneer of improvement ... to an apparatus that is still likely to be co-opted by despots. - Nile Gardiner

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

For Israel should not be condemned, in the name of stability, to live in a region where despots threaten to 'wipe them off the map,' - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought. Repression in history leads to conciseness in the historian, and the rocklike hardness of much celebrated prose is due to the tempering of the tyrant. - Victor Hugo

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