#despot

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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


#boisterous #children #commerce #degrading #despotism

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

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


#despots #fact #generous #humanity #liberation

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


#international-sanctions #iraq #iraq-sanctions #kim-jong-il #north-korea

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


#civilization #despotism #each #economic #equal

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


Marguerite Gardiner


#dictates #dreams #fashion #here

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


Thomas Jefferson


#despotism #liberty #men #prefer #sea

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


#despotism #guarantee #only #suffrage #universal

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


Thomas Jefferson


#expect #liberty #translated