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Letter "D" » despotism
«Most of what we object to as misconduct in children is a natural rebellion against the intrusion of an unimaginative adult despotism in their lives»
Author: Floyd Dell
| About:
Children,
Family
| Keywords:
adult, despotism, intrusion, intrusions, misconduct, rebellion, unimaginative
«Religions are the cradles of despotism.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
cradled, cradles, despotism, From the Cradle, religions
«Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.»
Author: Michel Foucault
(Historian, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
dangers, despotism, entail, entailed, entailing, entails, Freedom of conscience
«It's political Daddyism and it's as old as demagogues and despotism.»
«Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism»
Author: Edward Gibbon
(Historian)
| Keywords:
despotism, fetter, fettered, fetters, in fetters, possessions, secured
«Happiness, whether in despotism or democracy, whether in slavery or liberty, can never be found without virtue»
«Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.»
«REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an optional obedience. In a republic, the foundation of public order is the ever lessening habit of submission inherited from ancestors who, being truly governed, submitted because they had to. There are as many kinds of republics as there are graduations between the despotism whence they came and the anarchy whither they lead.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
anarchy, despotism, enforce, governing, graduations, inherited, lessening, optional, republic, submission, The Anarchy, whence, whither
«They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, tr»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
despotism, exile, exiled, exiles, free spirit, oppression, pleased, rebels, slavery, The Exile
«If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.»
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