Sentence examples for for despotism from inspiring English sources

As for despotism, that is a hard question.

"Are Chinese people only fit for despotism and totalitarianism?" remarked one viewer.

This is not to make the case for despotism, even if the ends are social improvement.

This bloodletting inaugurated Suharto's New Order — an even more transparent euphemism for despotism than Sukarno's Guided Democracy had been.

Such shameful stupidity shows how western governments end up as accomplices to terror and apologists for despotism.

But, to judge from Vogelstein's adept and well-reported account of the iPhone's unveiling and the corporate battles it launched, his real hallmark was a flair for despotism and deception.

In the 18th century, a group of French political economists, called the "Physiocrats," used the Chinese imperial system as a basis for their calls for "enlightened despotism" in France.

The journey of Spirit began in China, which had grasped the idea that one person (the emperor) was free; but freedom for only one person is in fact license for him and despotism for everyone else.

Finally, Pufendorf's theory of the state had a significant formative influence on specific thinkers like Rousseau, who criticized him and other "friends of despotism" for undermining human freedom while nonetheless borrowing heavily from his political conceptions.

He cites Herodotus for the contrast between Asian slavishness and Western individuality and love of freedom; Ernest Renan for Islam's hostility to science; Montesquieu and Hegel for "Oriental despotism".

Attacked for his despotism by liberal-minded scholars, Mao is admired by New Left intellectuals for his assault on Communist bureaucracies and advocacy of "extensive democracy" during the Cultural Revolution.