Despots Quotes

“Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.”
― George Orwell

“Despots prefer the friendship of the dog, who, unjustly mistreated and debased, still loves and serves the man who wronged him.”
― Charles Fourier

“Ethics and oversight are what you eliminate when you want absolute power.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“Earthquake means destruction; dictator means destruction! In the case of earthquake, you need a strong building; in the case of dictator, you need an educated rational mind, because an irrational ignorant mind always serves the dictator!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Despots are elected and deposed.
Laws are passed and repealed.
Nations rise and fall.
Individual liberty is eternal.”
― A.E. Samaan

“Embracing/attacking other communities won't change the facts. Our people are in this quagmire because we ignored education & elected clueless despots who inturn have presided over the worst economic crimes in the history of the continent. Whom did you elect?”
― DON SANTO

“History has seen many who claim to be deliverer and saviour of the people. They might come with force and violence and parade their might and splendour as conquerors. The pharaohs of Egypt, Sennacherib king of Assyria, Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Darius of Persia, Alexander the Great, Hannibal, Napoleon, Clive of India, Bismarck, the Kaiser, Hitler, Stalin. The story and scene is always the same. They claim to deliver the people from bondage and to establish justice, freedom and peace. They come in might, riding in splendour, dragging prisoners.”
― John Myer, John Myer: A Collection of his Sermons and Writing, #1

“A spoonful of sugar can be as helpful in dealing with foreign diplomats as it is in child psychology, for these are not unrelated fields.”
― Madeleine Albright, Fascism: A Warning

“Ignorant, unconscious and dishonourable part of a society want and like kings, dictators, padishahs and all sort of despots; educated, conscious and honourable part of the same society hate and refuse monarchs, tyrants, oppressors and any kind of autocrats!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Ve tahtından indirmek istediğiniz bir despotsa söz konusu olan, önce onun içinizde kurulu tahtını ortadan kaldırın. Bir zorba özgür ve gururlu olanlara nasıl hükmedebilir, eğer onların kendi özgürlüklerinde bir zorbalık, kendi gururlarında bir utanç yoksa? Ve üstünüzden atmak istediğiniz bir yükümlülükse söz konusu olan, bu yükümlülük size dayatılmadı, onu siz seçtiniz.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“When a despot ineptly sought to turn a country to a totalitarian nightmare, where was poetry? It wasn't sleeping. It kept the poets up at night. We wrote against despair toward beauty, toward a truth that could imprison us for making liars out of the fools deposited in the seats of power, kept there by puppets who kneeled in piles of promissory notes.”
― Joy Harjo, Catching the Light

“Lest we lay too heavy a criticism against any government administration--local, state, or federal--we are reminded that American government is representational. Political leaders reflect the people who elect them (as well as those who fail in this civic responsibility) as a mirror reflects those who gaze into it.”
― Ron Brackin

“Only you can live with your ego.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“In the minds of all dictators, the people that they rule over should best be regarded as mere shadows — seen but not heard.”
― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

“For the people of any nation, the death of their dictator or his fall from power is like the end of a long and brutal war. They breathe down in great relief.”
― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

“And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This is not only how we stop Trump, it's how we stop the next one.”
― Zohran Mamdani