#despot

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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.


Thomas Paine


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Democracy passes into despotism.


Plato


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


Arabella Weir


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Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.


Thomas Jefferson


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Religions are the cradles of despotism.


Marquis de Sade


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There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.


Charles de Secondat


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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.


Elizabeth Cady Stanton


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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.


William Floyd


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Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous.


William Wells Brown


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The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.


Georg Buchner


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