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Letter "D" » despotic
«The days of looking the other way while despotic regimes trample human rights, rob their nations' wealth, and then excuse their failings by feeding their people a steady diet of anti-Western hatred are over.»
Author: Dick Cheney
(Vice President)
| Keywords:
anti, despotic, failings, feeding, regimes, rob, trample, Western
«'The will of the nation' is one of those expressions which have been most profusely abused by the wily and the despotic of every age»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
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abused, despotic, expressions, profusely, wily
«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.»
Author: Frank Herbert
(Author, Writer)
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despot, despotic, despots, helpless, ineffectual, maintains, subjects
«In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman wields the sceptre of fierce neatness, one treads as if he carried his life in his hands»
«If there is a species which is more maltreated than children, then it must be their toys, which they handle in an incredibly off-hand manner. Toys are thus the end point in that long chain in which all the conditions of despotic high-handedness are in play which enchain beings one to another, from one species to another --cruel divinities to their sacrificial victims, from masters to slaves, from adults to children, and from children to their objects.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
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despotic, divinities, enchain, enchained, enchains, end point, handedness, in play, maltreated, off-hand, one species, sacrificial, toys
«Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances, the senses are despotic»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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despotic, distances, rule the world
«The freedom of the press is on of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by a despotic government»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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bulwark, bulwarks, despotic, freedom of the press, liberty of the press, press, restrained, the press
«And let us reflect that, having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and»
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