Definition of Despot

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Definition of Despot
	Despot A master; a lord; especially, an absolute or irresponsible ruler or sovereign. One who rules regardless of a constitution or laws; a tyrant. Related Definitions: Absolute, An, Constitution, Especially, Irresponsible, Lord, Master, Of, One, Or, Regardless, Ruler, Sovereign, Tyrant, Who

Despot Quotations

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

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

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

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
Frank Herbert

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

Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.
Tim Bishop

Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards.
Aeschines

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

Despot Translations

despot in Dutch is despoot, dwingeland
despot in French is despote
despot in German is Despot
despot in Swedish is despot

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