Enlightened despots are mythical creatures; real despots seem more interested in stealing money or installing their sons after them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.
Despotism is a long crime.
Democracy passes into despotism.
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.
An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.
Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.
False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.
Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?
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.
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