Unrestrained Rule Quotes

Despotisms usually ground themselves upon the theories of extreme democracy.

Absolute power should never be trusted to man. It has perverted the wisest heads, and corrupted the best hearts in the world. I should be afraid to commit my property, liberty and life to a body of angels for one whole year.

I would not like a king who could obey.

A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

I am in favour of a dictatorship.

Monarchy is in itself irrational, evil government, unless over those who are naturally beasts and slaves.

Politics without responsibility IS fascism.

Regimes like the one in Russia are stabilized by the fact that they have no ideology. There is really no ideological means to attack them.

They would be subject to no one, neither to lawful ruler nor to the reign of law, but would be altogether and absolutely free. That is the way they got their tyrants, for either servitude or freedom, when it goes to extremes, is an utter bane, while either in due measure is altogether a boon.

In our own time we have seen domination spread over the social landscape to a point where it is beyond all human control. Compared to this stupendous mobilization of materials, of wealth, of human intellect, of human labor for the single goal of domination, all other recent human achievements pale to almost trivial significance. Our art, science, medicine, literature, music and charitable acts seem like mere droppings from a table on which gory feasts on the spoils of conquest have engaged the attention of a system whose appetite for rule is utterly unrestrained.

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.

The spirit of moderation in a state of overbearing power is a phenomenon which has not yet appeared, and which no wise man will expect ever to see.

… autocrat of half the world

Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.

How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.

The idea that democracies could be vulnerable to demagogues is not a new notion.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount.