Ben Carson Quotes

Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.

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

Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.

I grew up in the shadow of the Trujillato, saw how the regime had ravaged so many families.

Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.

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.

Oppressive government is more terrible than tigers.

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.

To trample democracy with one’s feet and to give power to a single man over almost eighty million people is so terrible that one can very probably tremble over the events which will come here.

Rule with an iron first will inevitably come to an end.

We have tended to be comfortable with authoritarian regimes.

Erdogon has become so paranoid, so power-hungry, he doesn't even allow institutions to flourish. It has become a one-man show.

Colonel Qaddafi's tyranny was absolutist, monarchical, and personal. The problem with such dictatorships is that as long as the tyrant lives, he reigns and terrorizes.

According to Netanyahu, he should rule like a Caesar, and the Knesset should be run by the tyranny of the majority.

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.

Fear must rule in a despotism.

A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.

Flee the country where a lone man holds all power: It is a nation of slaves.

Totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph anywhere.

Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

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.

The first country conquered by any dictator is his own country.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.