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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.
Despotism is a long crime.
Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?
Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.
Any government, that is its own judge of, and determines authoritatively for the people, what are its own powers over the people, is an absolute government of course. It has all the powers that it chooses to exercise. There is no other or at least no more accurate definition of a despotism than this.
The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
Enlightened despots are mythical creatures; real despots seem more interested in stealing money or installing their sons after them.
Darkness is full of possibility.
Democracy passes into despotism.