Top Despotism Quotes

From being a movement aiming for universal freedom, communism turned into a system of universal despotism. That is the logic of utopia.

The peoples owe all political rights and privileges which we enjoy today in greater or lesser measure, not to the good will of their governments, but to their own strength. One need only study the his...

Despotism Definition

(n.) The power, spirit, or principles of a despot; absolute control over others; tyrannical sway; tyranny.

(n.) A government which is directed by a despot; a despotic monarchy; absolutism; autocracy.

It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

I must admit that I feel that the best form of government is benevolent despotism.

I will believe in the right of one man to govern a nation despotically when I find a man born unto the world with boots and spurs and a nation with saddles on their backs.