Quotes with despotic

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• If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

  ― Frank Herbert
  American science fiction writer (1920 - 1986)
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• Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.

  Source: Brave New World Revisited (1958) Ch. 6

  ― Aldous Huxley
  English writer (1894 - 1963)
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• Much violence against women originates in emotional territory that they already command. By midlife and early old age, as the hormones of both genders change, women are in total, despotic control of their marriages.

  Source: Vamps and Tramps (1994)

  ― Camille Paglia
  American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• superstition
• government
• originates
• maintains
• religions
• emotional

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