Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arabella Weir

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

Alexis de Tocqueville

Despotism can do without faith but freedom cannot.

Alexander Hamilton

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

William Floyd

Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.

Lajos Kossuth

Fear must rule in a despotism.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

To begin with unlimited freedom is to end with unlimited despotism.

Max Stirner

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

Mike Crapo

Throwing off despotism and tyranny is our history and part of our national identity - something in which we can take incredible pride.

Jane Austen

I trust that absolutes have gradations.

Blaise Pascal

Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them.

Aristotle

The best things are placed between extremes.

Jeffrey Schloss

There are polemical extremes that are getting more hostile to each other,

Michael Kucharek

That's a very costly kind of operation. With the Visual Warning System, we wouldn't necessarily have to go to those extremes to get their attention.

Tommy Mottola

It's hard to predict and to say what goes on inside the minds of an artist, but that's what makes them an artist. That sense of creativity. That thing that makes them tick is probably the very thing that pushes them to the extremes that sometimes can cause, you know, fatalities and things that, you know, that end up not being good.

Don Sargent

And the extremes are what make the show so funny.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.

Sloane Crosley

We are only as good as our most extreme experiences

Shari Brill

Moderate successes are good, because if they do better than the shows they replaced, it's still a success for the networks.

Marc Johnson

Moderate strategies in the past had moderate results.

Barton Gellman

As militias go, the Ohio Defense Force is on the moderate side.

Mike Ross

Redistricting and a broken, polarized Congress have made it tough to be a moderate in Congress.

Gijs de Vries

Our strategy should be to strengthen the hand of moderate Muslims.

Lucy Jones

Northridge was a moderate earthquake, and it wasn't an urban hit; it was a suburban hit.

Steven Wood

Any slowing in sales will reveal moderate overbuilding.

Carl Tobias

Specter is the key, and then it comes down to moderate Republicans and where we were in May.

Hanna Rosin

Studies show that recipients of Section 8 vouchers have tended to choose moderately poor neighborhoods that were already on the decline, not low-poverty neighborhoods.

Ernie Kovacs

Television: A medium. So called because it's neither rare nor well done.

Richard Jaffe

may want to pursue the possibilities that a different person did them both, and neither was our client.

J. Paul Getty

I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.

Said Nursi

Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary.

Dave Reynolds

One thing about them is neither one will give up. They're tenacious, they really are.

Scott Brewer

Neither team made many errors. It was well played.

Larry Greene

Neither Savannah nor Brunswick has any kind of safe mooring or anchorage,

Michael Barnett

Neither of these goaltenders has ever been viewed as backups.

Dr. Chauvet

I don't tolerate insensitivity and neither do they.