Despotism

Despotism

Despotism is a form of government in which a single entity rules with absolute power. That entity may be an individual, as in an autocracy, or it may be a group, as in an oligarchy. The word despotism means to "rule in the fashion of a despot" and does not necessarily require a singular "despot", an individual.

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Famous quotes containing the word despotism:

    “France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.”
    —Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

    “We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty, in a feather-bed.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)