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1. The rights, the privileges, the personal liberty of every individual ecclesiastic, who is upon good terms with his own order, are, even in the most despotic governments, more respected than those of any other person of nearly equal rank and fortune
2. In short, by means of fetishism kings hold their despotic sway, and the priests draw large revenues, and exercise an enormous influence
3. In Rhodesia they became a failed despotic state called Zimbabwe
4. They joined the South African Army after Rhodesia became the despotic failed state of Zimbabwe and created a new Reconnaissance Regiment
5. Mostly it is just politics but in certain despotic countries the threat of nationalization (legal theft by the government) happens in real life
6. all of these functions and thus should be considered despotic and dictatorial
7. In Modern Times, historian Johnson traced the rise of Lenin in his chapter on despotic utopias
8. There was nothing on the scale of the despotic utopias of Europe in the past sixty years
9. the wicked and despotic slaughter of us, shall, from the Divine vengeance, endure eternal torture by fire
10. ” He could hardly have issued a harsher or more pointed indictment to a nation freshly released from just such despotic rule
11. 9 But you for the wicked and despotic slaughter of us shall from the Divine vengeance endure eternal torture by fire
12. The simple ways of the Hyborians had become modified to a large extent by the sensual, luxurious, yet despotic habits of the East
13. “At this rate,” he concluded, “you’ll not only be the most despotic and bloody dictator in our history, but you’ll shoot my dear friend Úrsula in an attempt to pacify your conscience
14. some Christian interpretations could actually help fuel despotic thinking in governments and fool
15. If the despotic emperors of China's
16. And do our stealth bombers and missile launchers seek out their killers and rapists and baby-bashers and village-levelers? Do we threaten their despotic despoilers with death and destruction, if they don't cease and desist? Not on your "Guess"-clad bippy, buster! The military might of this mightiest of nations is reserved for only those deemed politically or ethnically/attractively/color-correct! Prove me wrong
17. “Considering how many despotic tyrants, inhumane regimes, and anti-human legislation have and still do exist, it's amazing how few revolutions and revolitions there have been at either the corporate, state, or global level
18. N is quiet and harmless at work, but at home he is active, loud, and despotic; a
19. He pulverized his despotic pride, and high-handedness was reduced to nothing by one powerful blow
20. In that moment she felt the whole crushing misery of being weak, and sick, and old,--so old that you have outlived your claims to everything but the despotic care of charitable ladies, so old that you are a mere hurdy-gurdy, expected each time any one in search of edification chooses to turn your handle to quaver out tunes of immortality
21. The women are very much aware of this corruption of the process of a "secret ballot" and it heightens their desire to have the right to vote as they believe that they would refuse en masse to comply with despotic demands such as those of the mill owners," Olin informed him without realizing that it would be another 66 years before the ladies would have the lawful ability to test their theory
22. In some cases the people grow tired of a tyrant and attempt to overthrow the despotic ruler
23. And as Americans appreciate their heritage of freedom and take stock on this special day of where our country finds itself in relation to the tangled web of despotic nations and nihilistic revolutionaries attempting to snuff out freedom for all mankind, they would do well to consider the so-called cultured despisers of liberty who would rend asunder our preeminence in the world just assuredly as any diaper-headed terrorist but in simply a far more subtle and thus possibly far more seditious manner
24. Not necessarily less corrupt than the rest of the Egyptian bureaucracy but certainly the most arbitrary, high- handed, despotic and dreaded
25. I often contemplated that the big consolation of death is that it is despotic
26. The German people quite understandably went back to a social order they were more comfortable with: autocratic despotic rule of authority from the top on down
27. Every originally good intention, good motive, intelligent plan; was reversed and ruined as quickly as possible by these unseen undead filth scum: they are the reason the peasant revolt against the tyranny of Kings was reversed producing an even worse tyranny of a mad despotic Emperor who was a thousand times worse and more evil than any French King ever was
28. Indies had one more despotic; but fortunately she was of the true Russian breed
29. The public is despotic in its temper; it is capable of denying common justice, when too strenuously demanded as a right; but quite as frequently it awards more than justice, when the appeal is made, as despots love to have it made, entirely to its generosity
30. Close under the eaves of the stack, and as yet barely visible, was the red tyrant that the women had come to serve—a timber-framed construction, with straps and wheels appertaining—the threshing-machine which, whilst it was going, kept up a despotic demand upon the endurance of their muscles and nerves
31. But he controlled himself, and only said, with a touch of despotic firmness—
32. his terrible "Ta, ta, ta, ta!" Yet, for all that, his despotic nature was not disarmed by this angel of gentleness, whose ugliness day by day decreased, driven out by the ineffable expression of moral qualities which shone upon her face
33. His despotic spirit had grown in proportion to his avarice, and to part with the control of the smallest fraction of his property at the death of his wife seemed to him a thing "against nature
34. But if stockholders’ opinions were properly informed, it would insist upon curtailing the despotic powers given the directorate over the dividend policy
35. It is true, that the Empire having been despotic, the kingdom by the natural reaction of things, was forced to be liberal, and that a constitutional order was the unwilling result of Waterloo, to the great regret of the conquerors
36. In the eyes of despotic governments, who are always interested in having liberty calumniate itself, the Revolution of July committed the fault of being formidable and of remaining gentle
37. The well-known face was there: stern, relentless as ever—there was that peculiar eye which nothing could melt, and the somewhat raised, imperious, despotic eyebrow
38. As I walked by his side homeward, I read well in his iron silence all he felt towards me: the disappointment of an austere and despotic nature, which has met resistance where it expected submission—the disapprobation of a cool, inflexible judgment, which has detected in another feelings and views in which it has no power to sympathise: in short, as a man, he would have wished to coerce me into obedience: it was only as a sincere Christian he bore so patiently with my perversity, and allowed so long a space for reflection and repentance
39. Now I never had, as the reader knows, either given any formal promise or entered into any engagement; and this language was all much too hard and much too despotic for the occasion
40. ” In his amiable way he was telling the truth, because one could not imagine a less despotic husband
41. He knew how to make even his mother give way to him; he was almost despotic in his control of her
42. Shigalov is somewhat fanatical in his love for humanity, but remember that Fourier, still more Cabet and even Proudhon himself, advocated a number of the most despotic and even fantastic measures
43. The fact is, I've not got to the bottom of it yet, they talk about two Shpigulin men, but if there are any of our fellows in it, if any one of them has had a hand in it—so much the worse for him! You see what comes of letting people get ever so little out of hand! No, this democratic rabble, with its quintets, is a poor foundation; what we want is one magnificent, despotic will, like an idol, resting on something fundamental and external
44. The only difference is this, that in a despotic form of government the power is concentrated in a small number of violators, and the form of the violence is more pronounced; in the constitutional monarchies and republics, as in France and in America, the power is distributed among a larger number of violators, and its forms are less pronounced; but the matter of violence, with which the disadvantages of the power are greater than its advantages, and its process, which brings the violated to the extreme limit of weakening to which they can be brought for the advantage of the violators, are always one and the same
45. The governments in our time—all governments, the most despotic and the most liberal—have become what Herzen so aptly called Dzhingis-Khans with telegraphs, that is, organizations of violence, which have nothing at their base but the coarsest arbitrary will, and yet use all those means which science has worked out for the aggregate social peaceful activity of free and equal men, and which they now employ for the enslavement and oppression of men
46. In connection with this, the despotic governments directly prohibit the printing and dissemination of books and the utterance of speeches which enlighten the masses, and deport or incarcerate all men who are likely to rouse the masses from their lethargy; besides, all governments without exception conceal from the masses everything which could free them, and encourage everything which could corrupt them, such as the authorship of books which maintain the masses in the savagery of their religious and patriotic superstitions, all kinds of sensuous amusements, spectacles, circuses, theatres, and even all kinds of physical intoxications, such as tobacco, and brandy, which furnish the chief income of states; they even encourage prostitution, which is not only acknowledged, but even organized by the majority of governments
47. Even if we admit that, in consequence of an unfortunate concurrence of events in the government, as, for example, in France in the year 1870, some governments may be overthrown by force and the power pass into other hands, this power would in no case be less oppressive than the former one, and, defending itself against the infuriated deposed enemies, would always be more despotic and cruel than the former, as indeed has been the case in every revolution
48. But a king or an emperor, who in his position receives millions; who knows that all around him there are thousands of men who are willing to depose him and take his place; who knows that in no other position will he get such an income and such honours; who in the majority of cases, with a more or less despotic rule, knows even this, that, if he should be deposed, he would be tried for everything he did while in possession of his power, cannot help but believe in the unchangeableness and sacredness of the existing order
49. Nowadays every government, the despotic as well as the most liberal, has become what Herzen has so cleverly termed a Genghis Khan with a telegraphic equipment, that is, with an organization of violence, having for basis nothing less than the most brutal tyranny, and converting all the means invented by science for the inter-communication and peaceful activities of free and equal men to its own tyrannous and oppressive ends
50. On the contrary, obliged to defend itself from its exasperated and overthrown enemies, it will be even more cruel and despotic than its predecessor, as has ever been the case in periods of revolution