14.Every corps is a chain of despots, who, submitting and tyrannizing without exercising their reason, become dead weights of vice and folly on the community.
15.He seems to be self-confident, hardworking, capable of self-sacrifice (you see, I am impartial), that's to say, of sacrificing his own interest; but he is a great despot.
16.All men of talent, whether they be men of feeling or not; whether they be zealots, or aspirants, or despots—provided only they be sincere—have their sublime moments, when they subdue and rule.
17.Many Clients of Manafort’s firm were... less than savory individuals including autocrats and despots from around the world which led the firm being called out in a report published by the Center for Public Integrity titled the “Torturer’s Lobby.”