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In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing. – Charles-Louis de Secondat	added by Normando 5 months ago
It's called cooperative breeding, which always makes me laugh because it's not really so much, it's a bit despotic. – Lucy Cooke	Found on CNN 1 year ago
What worries me a good bit, is how these despotic regimes are emboldened to push back against the United States, we need to send a strong message to our adversaries, and to this new axis of evil of Russia, China, Iran and North Korea that we are going to push back on them and we will not let them win. – Fox News	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
[Some people] have a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to lower the powerful to their own level, and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom. I believe that it is easier to establish an absolute and despotic government amongst a people in which the conditions of society are equal, than amongst any other; and I think that, if such a government were once established amongst such a people, it would not only oppress men, but would eventually strip each of them of several of the highest qualities of humanity. Despotism, therefore, appears to me peculiarly to be dreaded in democratic times. – Alexis de Tocqueville	added by Normando 4 years ago
You know the last time I jokingly said that the papers start saying,' He's got despotic tendencies,' no, I'm not looking to do it. Unless you want to do it, that's OK. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 4 years ago
What I ’m afraid of is that if there is a complete withdrawal, you lose the ability to reform the agency from within and it becomes more despotic than it is. – Gregg Roman	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
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	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Fashon is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and fantastical, all in a breath -- tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute. – William Hazlitt	added by anonymous 14 years ago

In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.

– Charles-Louis de Secondat

added by Normando
5 months ago

It's called cooperative breeding, which always makes me laugh because it's not really so much, it's a bit despotic.

– Lucy Cooke

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What worries me a good bit, is how these despotic regimes are emboldened to push back against the United States, we need to send a strong message to our adversaries, and to this new axis of evil of Russia, China, Iran and North Korea that we are going to push back on them and we will not let them win.

– Fox News

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

[Some people] have a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to lower the powerful to their own level, and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom. I believe that it is easier to establish an absolute and despotic government amongst a people in which the conditions of society are equal, than amongst any other; and I think that, if such a government were once established amongst such a people, it would not only oppress men, but would eventually strip each of them of several of the highest qualities of humanity. Despotism, therefore, appears to me peculiarly to be dreaded in democratic times.

– Alexis de Tocqueville

added by Normando
4 years ago

You know the last time I jokingly said that the papers start saying,' He's got despotic tendencies,' no, I'm not looking to do it. Unless you want to do it, that's OK.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

What I ’m afraid of is that if there is a complete withdrawal, you lose the ability to reform the agency from within and it becomes more despotic than it is.

– Gregg Roman

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

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

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Fashon is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and fantastical, all in a breath -- tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.

– William Hazlitt

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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