{"quotes":[{"text":"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.","author":"Thomas Jefferson","tags":["courage","despotism","liberty","life","timid"],"id":1963,"author_id":"Thomas+Jefferson"},{"text":"It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.","author":"Thomas Jefferson","tags":["despotism"],"id":18885,"author_id":"Thomas+Jefferson"},{"text":"But now I understand something more fully that I once only understood abstractly. I see how utterly ridiculous it is to think that the state can be the right means to help those who are poor or living at the margins of society. The state is their enemy, as it is for everyone else.","author":"Jeffrey Tucker","tags":["anarchy","corruption","despotism","freedom","statism","welfare-state"],"id":19592,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Tucker"},{"text":"First Afghanistan, now Iraq. So who's next? Syria? North Korea? Iran? Where will it all end?' If these illegal interventions are permitted to continue, the implication seems to be, pretty soon, horror of horrors, no murderously repressive regimes might remain.","author":"Daniel Kofman","tags":["afghanistan","antiwar-movement","axis-of-evil","despotism","foreign-policy","foreign-policy-of-the-us","interventionism","iran","iraq","iraq-war","north-korea","repression","syria","war","war-in-afghanistan-2001-present"],"id":25821,"author_id":"Daniel+Kofman"},{"text":"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 subjugation on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it: for man is an imitative animal.","author":"Thomas Jefferson","tags":["despotism","power","slavery"],"id":28800,"author_id":"Thomas+Jefferson"},{"text":"Democracy passes into despotism.","author":"Plato","tags":["democracy","despotism","passes "],"id":43918,"author_id":"Plato"},{"text":"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!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["despotism","despots","destruction","dictator","dictator","dictator","dictatorship","dictatorships","earthquake","ildan-words-of-wisdom","irrational","mind","murat-ildan-sayings","rational"],"id":54963,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"When the Rule of Law disappears, we are ruled by the whims of men.","author":"Tiffany Madison","tags":["america","americanism","despotism","law","legal-system","men","police","police-state","politics","politics-of-the-united-states","rule-of-law","social-change","social-commentary","social-justice","social-norms","social-psychology","society","society-s-increasing-stupidity","state","surveillance","surveillance-society"],"id":64994,"author_id":"Tiffany+Madison"},{"text":"The foremost, or indeed the sole condition, which is required in order to succeed in centralizing the supreme power in a democratic community, is to love equality, or to get men to believe you love it. Thus, the science of despotism, which was once so complex, is simplified, and reduced, as it were, to a single principle.","author":"Alexis de Tocqueville","tags":["1840","democracy","despotism","equality","tyranny"],"id":74531,"author_id":"Alexis+de+Tocqueville"},{"text":"Fear is the State's psychological weapon of choice to frighten citizens into sacrificing their basic freedoms and rule-of-law protections in exchange for the security promised by their all-powerful government.","author":"Philip G. Zimbardo","tags":["despotism","fear","war-on-terror"],"id":86987,"author_id":"Philip+G.+Zimbardo"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":38,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}