Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexis de Tocqueville

Despotism can do without faith but freedom cannot.

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.

Alexander Hamilton

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

Arabella Weir

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

Mike Crapo

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

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.

John Stuart Mill

The despotism of custom is on the wane. We are not content to know that things are; we ask whether they ought to be.

Thomas Malthus

Reason interrupts man's career and asks him whether he may not bring beings into the world for whom he cannot provide the means of subsistence.

Jerry Krause

Reinsdorf told me, 'You have an invitation to a press conference on Monday. The new manager of the White Sox asks that you be there,' ... Ozzie never forgot to this day.

Kevin Bankston

Our goal is to go after the people who are making the government's illegal surveillance possible. They could not do what they are doing without the help of companies like AT&T. We want to make it clear to AT&T that it is not in their legal or economic interests to violate the law whenever the president asks them to.

Jamie Dixon

Our family thanks everyone for their support and prayers and asks for their continued respect and privacy.

Todd Coffey

I will do any and everything. Whenever Jerry asks me to pitch, I?m going to give it everything. My job is to get hitters out.

Eric Garland

I think this just opens more doors and asks more questions than it answers, ... We're going to see a whole of litigation because there's still no clear standard.

Jonas Armstrong

My mother asks when I will do some theatre, and there is something about getting your 15 minute call. That is what you become an actor for - performing in front of people and getting the love from the audience.

Jay London

I work at Bed Bath and Beyond. I work in the Beyond section. When someone asks me where is the Bath section I say 'It's Beyond Me'.

John Page

Just about everybody who comes through the door asks what kind of incentive programs are available.

Paul Light

I think the 20,000 employees of immigration and customs enforcement have got to be scratching their heads, and saying, am I going to take orders from this particular person who has never held a gun in her hand?

Viktor Khristenko

Launching the Customs Union to the full will take at least two or three years.

Kevin Kwan

I think snobbery is one of the oldest customs in the world, and the rich will always find ways to rank each other and make themselves feel more special than others.

Chelsea Levine

I have always wanted to experience living in another country. I want to learn their customs and the way they do things.

Samuel Freeman Miller

History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the sound construction of the law, have come to overload and pervert it, as commentators on the text of Holy Scripture have established doctrines wholly at variance with its true spirit.

Lynn Flewelling

The real world is the fantasy writer's scrapbook. Real history, real geography, real customs and religions are all invaluable sources of guidance and inspiration.

Nancy Kress

Even if your novel occurs in an unfamiliar setting in which all the customs and surroundings will seem strange to your reader, it's still better to start with action. The reason for this is simple. If the reader wanted an explanation of milieu, he would read nonfiction. He doesn't want information. He wants a story.

Michael Osterholm

To be able to move smallpox simply means to have a device within a writing ink pen that could very easily pass any customs officer, could easily pass through a metal detector, and you could have enough smallpox in there to start the world's worst epidemic.

Leila Janah

We think the way out of poverty is to view the poor as producers, and the Internet is probably the most efficient tool we have for tapping this capacity. Because you don't need roads. You don't need customs officials who are friendly. You don't need to manage shipping and delivery schedules. You don't have to worry about tariffs.