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What is another word for potentates?

Pronunciation: [pˈə͡ʊtəntˌe͡ɪts] (IPA)

Potentates refers to people who have a lot of power or authority, especially in a political or governmental context. Some synonyms for the word potentates include rulers, monarchs, emperors, kings, queens, presidents, and prime ministers. Other words that can be used to describe potentates or people in positions of power include dictators, tyrants, autocrats, and despots. In a corporate setting, potentates could be referred to as CEOs, executives, or business magnates. Regardless of the context, potentates are generally seen as having a lot of influence and control over others, and can often be intimidating or difficult to challenge.
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  • People say we ought not to allow ourselves to be drawn into a theoretical antagonism between Nazidom and democracy; but the antagonism is here now.You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police.They are afraid of words and thoughts; words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home — all the more powerful because forbidden — terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words; they are afraid of the workings of the human mind.
    Winston Churchill
  • At Queen Philippa's court his fastidious eyes were spared the sight, which was moving Langland to realism, of the disbanded soldiery begging their bread along the countryside. Most of his busy days were spent with princes and potentates, and it is idle to ask how far this experience suits the impartial muse of history…He possessed, too, a prodigious memory; and his keen eye for detail and the wealth and colour of his narrative produced such a record of the fourteenth century as Langland could never have composed. Posterity can but return thanks that the picture has been drawn from both aspects.
    Jean Froissart
  • Power, like vanity, is insatiable. Nothing short of omnipotence could satisfy it completely. And as it is especially the vice of energetic men, the causal efficacy of love of power is out of all proportion to its frequency. It is, indeed, by far the strongest motive in the lives of important men. Love of power is greatly increased by the experience of power, and this applies to petty power as well as to that of potentates.
    Bertrand Russell

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