Sentence examples for soft despotism from inspiring English sources

My friend asked that I not name him in anything I might write; he believes that the soft despotism of the Mubarak government is hardening, and he wants to stay out of jail.

For us, the age of surveillance is more likely to drift toward what Alexis de Tocqueville described as "soft despotism" or what the Forbes columnist James Poulos has dubbed "the pink police state".

Of course, Tocqueville was aware of the dangers of this kind of sleepless communitarianism; he wrote forebodingly about stifling conformism, the tyranny of the majority, the soft despotism of modern equality.

Not that Prof. Rahe, author of the splendid new book Soft Despotism fails to make a case.

After interviewing me for Uncommon Knowledge regarding my recent book Soft Despotism, Democracy's Drift, Peter Robinson wished he had had a bit more time to ask questions.

It's the most convenient and romantic justification for what the title of Paul Rahe's new book rightly identifies as "soft despotism".

"Every state", Stirner insists, "is a despotism, be the despot one or many".

In contrast, Patrick O'Kane's Kreon is mostly soft-spoken, even when the character veers towards despotism.

"Despotism works," he said.

Is despotism really so terrible?

Legal despotism eventually crumbles away.