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. From LearnThat.org. [John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)]
Marx envisioned cooperation among all workers - the employed and unemployed - in labor unions as the means to destroy what he called the despotism of capitalism. From Wordnik.com. [Capitol Hill Coffee House] Reference
The difference between an understandable legislative process and despotism is transparency. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » How a Self-Executing Rule Works] Reference
Yet the exercise of boundless despotism is happily checked by the laws of nature and necessity. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
Enlightened despotism is thus preferable to democracy: the masses require protection from themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Was Democracy Just a Moment?] Reference
The rules and precautions of freedom have required some explanation; the order of despotism is simple and inanimate. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
Thus the world is fated to see a steady increase in despotism, warfare, civil strife, impoverishment, fanaticism and genocide. From Wordnik.com. [A Convenient Enemy] Reference
But the central thesis — that “mixed economy” style regulation leads inexorably to full-blown despotism, is by this point pretty clearly false. From Wordnik.com. [Serfdom’s Receding Horizon] Reference
Over time, of course, Fujimori's iron hand of reform evolved into the familiar Latin American despotism, supported largely by the intrigues of Montesinos. From Wordnik.com. [What The Spy Chief Knows] Reference
If you believe despotism is bad now on a global scale, JUST WAIT until there is no great power which in some form or fashion advocates, encourages, and supports. From Wordnik.com. [The Economist Still Hates To See Humans in Space - NASA Watch] Reference
Sovereignty of the human will; in short, despotism. From Wordnik.com. [What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government.] Reference
Its so - called despotism is but a phase of nothingness. From Wordnik.com. [Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures] Reference
German writer puts it, his despotism was a form of Patriarchal. From Wordnik.com. [Myths of Babylonia and Assyria] Reference
A despotism is a consumption: it degrades and weakens, and perverts all the vital functions. From Wordnik.com. [Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Volume 2] Reference
Obama is taking some risk and is courageous, but more so on the side of despotism, which is far worse than being a coward. From Wordnik.com. [Waldo's Virginia Political Blogroll] Reference
The landlord does the drawing, does it with an absence of pretence, a frankness of despotism, that is nothing if not brutal. From Wordnik.com. [XIII. The Color Line in New York] Reference
He is not only a sordid miser in his disposition, but his avarice is mingled with a spirit of despotism, which is truly diabolical. —. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition of Humphry Clinker] Reference
If the health care system has deteriorated, she says, it's because of the "despotism" of "crippling regulation.". From Wordnik.com. [SiCKO and the Health Insurance Rip-Off] Reference
President Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim, accusing him of "despotism," and called for a change of regime to resolve the crisis. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Tuscany, dealing a knock-down blow to the "despotism" of Austria, and spitting her eagle on a bayonet; altogether justifying his reputation. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
And shatter despotism, which is the foul fiend's ban. ". From Wordnik.com. [Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War] Reference
Nothing better than another kind of despotism has been seen in the. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12)] Reference
We Occidentals have, in fact, never known "despotism," in its Simon. From Wordnik.com. [The New World of Islam] Reference
This kind of despotism was first attacked when the slaves found spokesmen. From Wordnik.com. [Freeland A Social Anticipation] Reference
That is the essence of communism, socialism, fascism and every kind of despotism known to man. From Wordnik.com. [Power and Control] Reference
III. and the kind of despotism which he wished to fasten upon America in order that he might fasten it upon England. From Wordnik.com. [The War of Independence] Reference
Is this not the same kind of despotism that lay at the bottom of the Inquisition, all persecutions, and the great revolution?. From Wordnik.com. [Voskresenie. English] Reference
Former President Mohammad Khatami accused the clerics of obstructing his reforms and warned against the dangers of religious "despotism". From Wordnik.com. [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference
"despotism" of the U.N. Security Council and said the time was right for a sweeping reform of the entire United Nations structure. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
In this manner I cowered under as strict a despotism as. From Wordnik.com. [Women in the Life of Balzac] Reference
Nobody is arguing from this that despotism is the solution. From Wordnik.com. [Freedom Is Not Enough] Reference
Mr. Hu is a loyal supporter of communist authority and despotism. From Wordnik.com. ['It's Not Necessary To Wait'] Reference
"Mr. Hu is a loyal supporter of communist authority and despotism," he notes. From Wordnik.com. [See Chen Run] Reference
What Bennett meant by "despotism of dollars" was the ability to buy power and well-being. From Wordnik.com. [The Economics Of The Rat Race] Reference
With "I Fought Alongside Saddam," a people silenced by decades of despotism begins to recover its voice. From Wordnik.com. [Painting With Saddam] Reference
It is not against the unhappy millions that are ground down under the iron heel of that enormous despotism. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
In writing about Casanova, Marai noted that "there is nothing quite as dangerous as a man who will not yield to despotism.". From Wordnik.com. [RESCUED FROM OBLIVION] Reference
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