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• Machiavelli was a chief target of the philoso - phes because he preached an amoralistic selfishness which promoted despotic arbitrariness. MACHIAVELLISM
• Despotic as he was and became, Bonaparte always called theother Consuls about him before proceeding with the most trivial measure. The Psychology of Revolution
• In the first case the multitude usurp a despotic power; in the second it is usurped by a single person. Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1715
• Of despotic rulers who have perfectly cropped chin straps and like to yell? This Week In Trailers: Shank, Prince, Love In A Puff, Serbian Film, Some Days Are Better Than Others | /Film
• It is, instead, a war waged by a despotic regime and its standing army against a captive civilian population. Times, Sunday Times
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• The great increase of games and festivals and their enormous cost were signs of approaching trouble for the republic, and foretold the terrible days of the empire, when the rabblement of the capital, accustomed to be amused and fed by their despotic and corrupt rulers, should cry in the streets: "Give us bread for nothing and games forever! The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic
• Reiber and Richard Wortman, who drew attentionto the despotic qualities that undermined the Tsar’s liberal reforms—See Alfred J. FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871
• That this power in the church is not despotical, lordly, and absolute. The Sermons of John Owen
• In the past, the building of such mega-projects as complete new cities was frequently driven by the megalomania of some despotic ruler.