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“Absolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the absolute despot turns men into clay.”

Men Turns Power Absolutes Clay Despotism Absolute Power Despots Anti God

Author:Eric Hoffer

“Korell is that frequent phenomenon in history : the republic whose ruler has every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name. It therefore enjoyed the usual despotism unrestrained even by those two moderating influences in the legitimate monarchies: regal "honor" and court etiquette.”

Two Names Influence Honor Absolutes Court Enjoyed Phenomenon Republic Attributes Usual Rulers Etiquette Monarchy Despotism Monarchs Regal

Book:Great Tales of the Golden Age of Science Fiction

Source: Great Tales of the Golden Age of Science Fiction

“The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father abbot of a monastery. And the aim of this organization is power - power in its most despotic exercise - absolute power, universal power, power to control the world by the volition of a single man. Jesuitism is the most absolute of despotisms - and at the same time the greatest and most enormous of abuses.”

Men World Order Father Religious Military Exercise Organization Universal Abuse Army Absolutes Aim Mere Enormous Chiefs Despotism Absolute Power Monasteries Single Man Volition Jesuit

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“The fundamental article of my political creed is that despotism, or limited sovereignty, or absolute power is the same [whether] in a majority of a popular assembly; an aristocratic council; or oligarchical junto and a single emperor - equally arbitrary, cruel, bloody and in every respect diabolical.”

Political Absolutes Fundamentals Majority Tyranny Articles Creeds Bloody Sovereignty Council Arbitrary Emperor Assembly Despotism Absolute Power Diabolical Aristocratic

Author:John Adams

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

“Any government, that is its own judge of, and determines authoritatively for the people, what are its own powers over the people, is an absolute government of course. It has all the powers that it chooses to exercise. There is no other or at least no more accurate definition of a despotism than this.”

People Government Courses Judging Exercise Absolutes Definitions Determine Accurate Despotism

Book:The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner: Legal writings

Source: The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner: Legal writings

“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”

Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence

“Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.”

People Results Democracy Absolutes Extremes Wealthy Excess Despotism Oligarchy

Author:Aristotle