Quotes about Despotic

Therefore God's universal law gave to the man despotic power over his female in due awe, not from that right to part an hour, Smile she or lour.

In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman wields the sceptre of fierce neatness, one treads as if he carried his life in his hands.

A single legislature, on account of the superabundance of its power, and the uncontrolled rabidity of its execution, becomes as dangerous to the principles of liberty as that of a despotic monarch.