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Lysander Spooner

The single despot stands out in the face of all men, and says: I am the State: My will is law: I am your master: I take the responsibility of my acts: The only arbiter I acknowledge is the sword: If any one denies my right, let him try conclusions with me.

– Lysander Spooner

George Ayittey

Mugabe’s become a disgrace to Africa. And I must say this because I am an African and a lot of us looked up to him back in the 1980s when he was the liberation hero. But he’s now turned himself into a murderous despot.

– George Ayittey

Eric Hoffer

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

Apollonius of Tyana

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

Anthony Weiner

We always make the mistake in the United States of America in Democratic or Republican administrations alike is we tend to embrace the despot that’s least troublesome to us. That should not be the way we view things.

– Anthony Weiner

Aeschines

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

Mikhail Bakunin Politics

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

– Mikhail Bakunin

History Richard Jefferies

No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed to serve the despot is the bitterest, the saddest matter of history; it is the saddest sight in our own day.

– Richard Jefferies

Frank Herbert Government

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

Dreams Marguerite Gardiner

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

– Marguerite Gardiner

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