The control of information is something the elite always does particularly in a despotic form of government. Information knowledge is power. If you can control information you can control people.

There are three species of government: republican monarchical and despotic.

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

Their poverty secured their freedom since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

Equality rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences wrongly understood as it has been so tragically in our time it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

Here Fashion is a despot and no one dreams of evading its dictates.