Despotism Quotes - Page 9

• There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations; the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no more than a collection of anecdotes.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  History, Anecdotes, Attention

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1902). "El Breviario del Cínico: Máximas y anécdotas de Nicolás de Chamfort"

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• Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than their preachings.

  Raymond Aron

  Party, Practice, Names

  Raymond Aron (2011). “The Opium of the Intellectuals”, p.97, Transaction Publishers

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• He asks how the evil is to be remedied. I tell him that there seems to be little chance for avoiding the extremes of despotism or anarchy; that the only ground of hope must be the morals of the people, but that these are, I fear, too corrupt.

  Gouverneur Morris

  People, Evil, Littles

  Gouverneur Morris (1888). “The Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris: Minister of the United States to France ... Etc”

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• Ruego encarecidamente que el Ser Omnipotente que no ha abandonado la causa de América en la hora de su mayor peligro, nunca ceda tan justo patrimonio de libertad a la "Anarquía" o al "Despotismo".

  George Washington

  Rendimiento, América, Peligros

  George Washington Jared Sparks (1835). "Los escritos de George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private", p.406

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• Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all of the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.

  Frederick Douglass

  Practice, America, Hypocrisy

  ¿Qué es para el esclavo el 4 th Of July?, pronunciado el 4 th Of July de 1852

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• Are the peoples of the Middle East somehow beyond the reach of liberty? Are millions of men and women and children condemned by history or culture to live in despotism? Are they alone never to know freedom and never even to have a choice in the matter?

  George W. Bush

  Children, Men, Choices

  National Endowment for Democracy Address on the Middle East, delivered 6 November 2003, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Washington, D.C.

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• El despotismo republicano es más fértil en actos de tiranía, porque todos tienen algo que ver.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Hands, Revolution, Republican

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• If the perpetual oscillation of nations between anarchy and despotism is to be replaced by the steady march of self-restraining freedom, it will be because men will gradually bring themselves to deal with political, as they now deal with scientific questions.

  Thomas Huxley

  Men, Self, Political

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2006). “Huxley's Autobiography and Essays”, p.234, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is far more important to resist apathy than anarchy or despotism, for apathy can give rise, almost indifferently, to either one.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Giving, Important, Apathy

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• The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Freedom, Political, Greek

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (2012). “The Philosophy of History”, p.104, Courier Corporation

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• No conocéis la insondable cobardía de la humanidad... servil ante la fuerza, despiadada ante la debilidad, implacable ante los desatinos, indulgente ante los crímenes... y paciente hasta el martirio ante todas las violencias del despotismo audaz.

  Nicolás Maquiavelo

  Humanidad, Libertad, Debilidad

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• There is this of good in real evils; they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were imaginary.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Real, Evil, Wickedness

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.455

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• What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea coasts, our army and our navy... Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in us. Our defense is in the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism at your own doors... You have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Army, Men, Doors

  "The Writings of Abraham Lincoln" by Abraham Lincoln, Vol. 5, (pp. 6-7), 2004.

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• Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend toward socialism and despotism is common-sense and moral courage.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Ideas, Common Sense, Liberty

  Ludwig Von Mises (1947). “Planned Chaos”, p.83, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• I am entirely persuaded that the agitations of the public mind advance its powers, and that at every vibration between the points of liberty and despotism, something will be gained for the former. As men become better informed, their rulers must respect them the more.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Hombres, Mente, Libertad

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.177, Cambridge University Press

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• El despotismo puede prescindir de la fe, pero la libertad no.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Tyranny, Can Do

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2012). "Democracy in America", p.282, University of Chicago Press.

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• Una nación belicosa como los germanos, sin ciudades, ni letras, ni artes, ni dinero, encontró cierta compensación a este estado salvaje en el disfrute de la libertad. Su pobreza aseguraba su libertad, ya que nuestros deseos y nuestras posesiones son los grilletes más fuertes del despotismo.

  Edward Gibbon

  Arte, Ciudades, Historia

  Edward Gibbon (1854). "Historia de la decadencia y caída del imperio romano, con notas de Milman y Guizot. Ed. por W. Smith", p.359

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• La gente olvidó que la industria no es un fin en sí misma, sino que debe ser sólo un medio para asegurar al hombre su subsistencia material y hacerle accesibles las bendiciones de una cultura intelectual más elevada. Donde la industria lo es todo y el hombre no es nada, comienza el reino de un despotismo económico despiadado cuyo funcionamiento no es menos desastroso que el de cualquier despotismo político.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Mean, Blessing, Men

  Rudolf Rocker (2004). “Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice”, p.2, AK Press

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• Cuán propensas han sido todas las instituciones humanas a la decadencia; cuán sujetos han estado los gobiernos mejor formados y más sabiamente organizados a perder su control y disolverse totalmente; cuán difícil ha sido para la humanidad, en todas las épocas y países, preservar sus derechos más queridos y sus mejores privilegios, impelida como estaba por un destino irresistible de despotismo.

  James Monroe

  Country, Fate, Rights

  James Monroe (2006). “The Papers of James Monroe: Selected correspondence and papers, 1776-1794”, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden.

  Jean-François de La Harpe

  Men, Superstitions, Beast

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• The seeds of freedom . . . have now been scattered where despotism and tyranny ranked and ruled, will be watered by the enlivening dews of God's clemency, till the reapers abolitionists shall shout the harvest home.

  Henry McNeal Turner

  Home, Dew, Harvest

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• We, the workers and inhabitants of St Petersburg, of various estates, our wives, our children, and our aged, helpless parents, come to THEE, O SIRE to seek justice and protection. We are impoverished; we are oppressed, overburdened with excessive toil, contemptuously treated . . . We are suffocating in despotism and lawlessness. O SIRE we have no strength left, and our endurance is at an end. We have reached that frightful moment when death is better than the prolongation of our unbearable sufferings. . .

  Orlando Figes

  Children, Justice, Wife

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• Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Parent, Libertarian

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1793-1798”, p.474, Cosimo, Inc.

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• El socialismo es el fantasioso hermano menor del despotismo, al que quiere heredar. El socialismo quiere tener la plenitud de la fuerza estatal que antes sólo existía en el despotismo. ... Sin embargo, va más lejos que todo lo anterior porque pretende la destrucción formal del individuo ... que ... puede ser utilizado para mejorar las comunidades por un órgano de gobierno expeditivo.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Brother, Past, Government

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• La democracia es necesariamente despotismo, ya que establece un poder ejecutivo contrario a la voluntad general; pudiendo decidir todos contra uno cuya opinión pueda diferir, la voluntad de todos no es por tanto la de todos: lo cual es contradictorio y opuesto a la libertad.

  Immanuel Kant

  Opposites, Liberty, Democracy

  Immanuel Kant (1932). “Perpetual peace”

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