despot quotes

Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.

-Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett
  The Cynic's Word Book. Retitled  The Devil's Dictionary (1911).

The more contracted that power is, the more easily it is destroyed. A country governed bya despot is an inverted cone.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Remark,14  Apr. Quoted in  James Boswell  The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.3.

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