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Never may a man prone to believe scandal be a despot or a popular leader! Under his guidance, democracy itself will be despotism. — Apollonius Of Tyana

Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the whole history of their use. — Roger Scruton

the despot assures his subjects civil tranquillity. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A free and open Internet is a despot's worst enemy. — Jay Samit

Tokyo Disneyland is an aspiring despot's wet dream. — Our Man In Abiko

I would sooner damn myself to Hell than be forced to serve the insufferable despot that the Bible portrayed God to be. In — Aron Ra

If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters. — George Bernard Shaw

Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey. — Ambrose Bierce

No arrogant man has ever touched the human heart, no despot ever commanded respect. — Andy Paula

Imagination is the mightiest despot. — Berthold Auerbach

Absolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the absolute despot turns men into clay. — Eric Hoffer

But the friendship of a despot is ever a dangerous honour. — Kakuzo Okakura

Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates. — Marguerite Gardiner

If a despot like Adolf Hitler can think of 1000-year reign, why can't you think of a goal that is gonna last 100 years after you have gone? — Peter J. Daniels

Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence. — Aeschylus

I don't give a damn if you like Blackbeard. I don't care if you think he is an absolute despot. Do you believe me? If you do, I've done my work. — Ray Stevenson

Sin is an exacting despot who can be vanquished by no created power, but by the sovereign power of Jesus Christ alone. — Martin Luther

A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets. — Eric Hoffer

If it's a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed. — Khalil Gibran

Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot. — Bill Vaughan

A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom-he fears a drunken poet may crack a joke that will take hold. — E.B. White

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

Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. — Oscar Wilde

A man who's active and incisive can yet keep nail-care much in mind: why fight what's known to be decisive? custom is despot of mankind. — Alexander Pushkin

Those who disagree with the dictator's plan have no other means to carry on than to defeat the despot by force of arms. — Ludwig Von Mises

A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone. — Samuel Johnson

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Despot's ultimate goal, using terror as his tool in trade = Corporal punishment in schools
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You know, there's more to being an evil despot then getting cake whenever you want it."
"If that's what you think, then you're DOING IT WRONG! — Phil Foglio

Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake. — Edgar Wallace

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

In times of anarchy one may seem a despot in order to be a saviour. — Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau

We Stoics are not subjects of a despot: each of us lays claim to his own freedom. — Seneca.

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. — Mikhail Bakunin

At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. — Stendhal