Definition of Despotism

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Definition of Despotism
	Despotism The power, spirit, or principles of a despot; absolute control over others; tyrannical sway; tyranny. A government which is directed by a despot; a despotic monarchy; absolutism; autocracy. Related Definitions: Absolute, Absolutism, Autocracy, By, Control, Despot, Despotic, Directed, Government, Is, Monarchy, Of, Or, Over, Power, Spirit, Sway, The, Tyrannical, Tyranny, Which

Despotism Quotations

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
Thomas Jefferson

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.
Thomas Jefferson

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
Thomas Jefferson

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
Thomas Jefferson

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
Abraham Lincoln

Democracy passes into despotism.
Plato

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

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.
James Madison

Despotism is a long crime.
Victor Hugo

Religions are the cradles of despotism.
Marquis de Sade

Despotism Translations

despotism in French is despotisme
despotism in German is Despotismus
despotism in Spanish is despotismo

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