Lord Byron Quotes

Oppressive government is more terrible than tigers.

Would that the Roman people had but one neck!

I visited Libya in September 1996 for the 27th anniversary of the 'revolution' - a military coup that a 27-year-old Gadhafi led to topple the monarchy and since which he has ruled. Some were optimistic that Gadhafi's 'revolution' could herald a new Libya, but it didn't take long for his brutality to stamp out any such hopes.

Europeans have sometimes been beguiled by a despotism that comes concealed in the seductive form of an ideal – as it did in the cases of Hitler and Stalin. This fact may remind us that the possibility of despotism is remote neither in space nor in time.

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.

If Saddam were to be replaced tomorrow he would probably be replaced with someone who's just as bad or worse than he is.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

Enlightened despots are mythical creatures; real despots seem more interested in stealing money or installing their sons after them.

We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy.

Military dictatorship, you can focus on it, you can fight it directly. It's a band of power-driven people.

The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.

Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.

For 73 years a totalitarian regime ruled the country. Totalitarian regime.

You can't become a dictator through checks and balances.

Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world.

A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.

I beheld absolutism in all its power; and I felt encouraged to enter into a struggle against Augustin I.

I admit that what you have just heard might be for the welfare of the country, were it not that the presence of despotism are always dangerous.

All executive power --- from the reign of ancient kings to the rule of modern dictators --- has the outward appearance of efficiency

Napoleon is a dangerous man in a free country. He seems tome to have the makings of a tyrant, and I believe that were he to be king he would be fully capable of playing such a part, and his name would become an object of detestation to posterity...

They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers … call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.

Emperor Napoleon is nothing but an ordinary king who tramples on human rights.

In an absolute government there can be no... equiponderant parties. The despot is the government.

In domestic as in political tyranny, the case of absolute monsters chiefly illustrates the institution by showing that there is scarcely any horror which may not occur under it if the despot pleases

The rule of several bad men does not last long, and easily decays to the rule of a single tyrant.