Despotism Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status
When you take a benevolent man and make him a despot, his despotism survives but his benevolence rather fades away.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) British philosopher, mathematician
The sin and sorrow of despotism is not that it does not love men, but that it loves them too much and trusts them too little.
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) British author
Those in possession of absolute power cannot only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American philosopher
A despot doesn’t fear eloquent writers preaching freedom —he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.
E. B. White (1899-1985) American author, editor
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
