despotism
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His life spanned decades of despotisms, but he came to believe that the world faced a greater threat in the 21st century than ever before.
From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2016
“The rest of the fleet collapsed into oligarchies, despotisms, not one but two feudal states that make sixteenth-century Japan look like Disneyworld, four theocracies, a sopranocracy —”
From Nature • Apr. 28, 2015
Under the despotisms, the imagination of a better world and its achievement are alike forbidden.
From Time Magazine Archive
But history has demonstrated that democracies are usually stronger and despotisms are always more vulnerable than they appear.
From Time Magazine Archive
The greatest oppression is always that of individual passions, and the most dangerous of despotisms is anarchy: for then it is the right of the strongest which alone predominates.
From Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State by Janet, Paul
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