#despotism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #despotism, aggregated by home.social.
-
Unlimited power is the ideal thing when it is in safe hands. The despotism of heaven is the one absolutely perfect government, and earthly despotism would be the absolute perfect earthly government if the conditions were the same; namely the despot the perfectest individual of the human race, and his lease of life perpetual; but as a perishable, perfect man must die and leave his despotism in the hands of an imperfect successor, an earthly despotism is not merely a bad form of government, it is the worst form that is possible.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Novel (1889), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Part 3 “The Tale of the Lost Land,” ch. 10 “Beginnings of Civilization”More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/85346/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #twain #marktwain #connecticutyankee #absolutepower #despotism #dictatorship #humannature #mortality #perfection #succession #tyranny
-
A quotation from Thomas Jefferson
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. 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.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) American political philosopher, polymath, statesman, US President (1801-09)
Document (1776-07-02), “Declaration of Independence”More about this quote: wist.info/jefferson-thomas/220…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasjefferson #absolutepower #custom #despot #despotism #endurance #government #inertia #overthrow #putupwith #rebellion #revolution #suffering #tyranny #declarationofindependence
-
A strange thing, when one considers it: to wit, the world applies to Czar and System the same moral axioms that have vogue and acceptance in civilized countries! Because, in civilized countries, it is wrong to remove oppressors otherwise than by process of law, it is held that the same rule applies in Russia, where there is no such thing as law — except for our Family. Laws are merely restraints — they have no other function. In civilized countries they restrain all persons, and restrain them all alike, which is fair and righteous; but in Russia such laws as exist make an exception — our Family. We do as we please; we have done as we pleased for centuries. Our common trade has been crime, our common pastime murder, our common beverage blood — the blood of the nation. Upon our heads lie millions of murders. Yet the pious moralist says it is a crime to assassinate us. We and our uncles are a family of cobras set over a hundred and forty million rabbits, whom we torture and murder and feed upon all our days; yet the moralist urges that to kill us is a crime, not a duty.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Story (1905-02-02), “The Czar’s Soliloquy,” North American Review, Vol. 180, No. 580 (1905-03)More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/83904/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marktwain #twain #absolutepower #abovethelaw #assassination #civilization #despotism #greatergood #killing #lawlessness #morality #ruleoflaw #tyranny #violence -
The United States 🇺🇸 doesn’t care about its allies or a lifetime of friendship.
The U.S. believes only in the right of the strongest to take whatever suits them.
#jefflandry says it outright—that he wants to take Greenland from the Greenlandic people. Pure #evil.
What does the United States think it’s doing?
What undemocratic, war-mongering behavior toward a NATO ally. Trump is doing it solely to steal minerals from the ground—not for the benefit of Americans, but to make his own family richer.
Why should the whole world put up with such outrageous criminality?
In one day #usa got 6 million new #enemies
#danmark #fifa #fifapeaceprize #venezuela #canadanext #Greenland #crime #politics #uspolitics #war #disrespectful #democracy #autocracy #facism #nato #nature #despotism
-
Let the human Mind loose. It must be loose; it will be loose. Superstition and Despotism cannot confine it.
John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Letter (1816-11-13) to John Quincy AdamsMore about this quote: wist.info/adams-john/6140/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnadams #despotism #dogma #freethought #freedom #liberty #orthodoxy #superstition #tyranny #freethinking
-
A quotation from Thomas Jefferson
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. 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.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) American political philosopher, polymath, statesman, US President (1801-09)
Document (1776-07-02), “Declaration of Independence”Sourcing, notes, other versions: wist.info/jefferson-thomas/220…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasjefferson #declarationofindependence #absolutepower #custom #despot #despotism #endurance #government #inertia #overthrow #putupwith #rebellion #revolution #suffering #tyranny
-
A textbook example of the Orwellian “Memory Hole”When a fact contradicts the will of fascists and their despotic leaders, that fact is simply deleted, rewritten, or covered up, and there are numerous examples of the fascist US despot Donald Trump doing precisely this. I present here one such example: a research paper showing evidence that immigrants have lower crime rates than the baseline non-immigrant population. This contradicts the Despot’s will that most crime is caused by illegal immigrants, and so the research is erased.
The fascist bloc of the US have been doing this for many decades now, it is just that since the despot seized absolute power a few months ago, the fascists have been more unabashedly rewriting history than they have ever before in my lifetime.
EDIT: I should say, this is the entire reason why the fascist despot defunded the NOAA organization. NOAA, in the natural course of doing their jobs predicting the weather, kept on discovering too much hard evidence that climate collapse is a real thing. Since the will of the despot is that climate collapse is false, the despot simply covers up the facts by firing the scientists who predict the weather.
#uspol #Trump #fascism #despotism #orwellian #MemoryHole #RevisionistHistory #NOAA #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange
-
The fundamental Article of my political Creed is, that Despotism, or unlimited Sovereignty, or absolute Power is the Same in a Majority of a popular Assembly, an Aristocratical Counsel, an Oligarchical Junto and a Single Emperor. Equally arbitrary cruel bloody and in every respect, diabolical.
John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Letter (1815-11-13) to Thomas JeffersonSourcing, notes: wist.info/adams-john/1455/
#quote #quotes #quotation #absolutepower #aristocracy #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #evil #government #monarchy #oligarchy #tyranny #tyrannyofthemajority
-
Thoughts for today: Jamuary 20, 2025
While my political views are for the most part completely opposite of the late Senator Barry Goldwater, I do find many quotes attributed to him both insightful and thought provoking. The quote below seems especially thought provoking for today:
“Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed. Their mistaken course stems from false notions of equality, ladies and gentlemen. Equality, rightly understood, as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences. Wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. Fellow Republicans, it is the cause of Republicanism to resist concentrations of power, private or public, which enforce such conformity and inflict such despotism. It is the cause of Republicanism to ensure that power remains in the hands of the people. ”
― Barry Goldwater#USPolitics #AbsolutePower #Despotism #FreePress #HumanRights
Reference: Good Reads - https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/369997.Barry_M_Goldwater