#despotism

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism. ↗

— Michel Foucault

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The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off. ↗

— William Henry Harrison

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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

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

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

— Thomas Jefferson

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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

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

— Thomas Jefferson

#expect #liberty #translated