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The government in a revolution is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.

Maximilien Robespierre

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

Mary Mccarthy

France was a long despotism tempered by epigrams.

Thomas Carlyle

Religions are the cradles of despotism.

Marquis De Sade

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

Michel Foucault