A Quote by Mikhail Bakunin

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.

Mikhail Bakunin

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Politics Despot Idealism Just Thought Will

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Mikhail Bakunin
Russian - Revolutionary
May 30, 1814 - July 1, 1876

There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.

Oscar Wilde

Putin is a despot, and he's a very good despot. And he will see things in a narrow way. What is good for Russia? That is what he will do. If that's represented by a move toward the Baltic, that would be very dangerous, but he would do it, on the assumption that he would ask himself the question: I am prepared to fight for Estonia. Is the United States? Is Germany? Is Britain, France?

Marvin Kalb

Imagination is the mightiest despot.

Berthold Auerbach

Never may a man prone to believe scandal be a despot or a popular leader! Under his guidance, democracy itself will be despotism.

Apollonius of Tyana

A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.

E. B. White

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.

Marguerite Gardiner

A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone.

Samuel Johnson

Every State is a despotism, be the despot one or many.

Max Stirner

A free and open Internet is a despot's worst enemy.

Jay Samit

Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.

Ambrose Bierce

A hurt body and mind aren't just like a dictatorship; they are a dictatorship. There is no tyrant as merciless as pain, no despot so cruel as confusion.