Autocracy Quotes
Collection of top 26 famous quotes about Autocracy
Autocracy Quotes & Sayings
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Free people were not ruled. Freedom had first to be valued before its existence could be demanded.
— Terry Goodkind
We took the simple step of illegalising all opposition. And the autobahn to autocracy lay clear.
— Martin Amis
The word 'star' doesn't mean an awful lot to me. 'Good actor' and having the respect of one's peers means more.
— Pierce Brosnan
Autocracy is a government of the few from above; Bolshevism is a government of the few from below.
— Ameen Rihani
Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters' own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.
— Milton Friedman
If the situation demanded autocracy, I gave it autocracy.
— Verghese Kurien
The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.
— Otto Hermann Kahn
The chief support of an autocracy is a standing army. The chief support of a democracy is an educated people.
— Lotus Coffman
Every nation has its war party. It is not the party of democracy. It is the party of autocracy. It seeks to dominate absolutely.
— Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
The Chinese, as befits a Communist autocracy, approached the task of dominating the Olympics with top-down military discipline.
— Shashi Tharoor
People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'
— Adam Carolla
The doctrine of morals is an autonomy of practical reason, while the doctrine of virtue is at the same time an autocracy of practical reason.
— Immanuel Kant
There is no better way to manage than by walking around. Autocracy doesn't work. Talk to people in their offices, find out what's on their minds.
— Maurice Flanagan
The number one reason most people don't get what they want is that they don't know what they want.
— T. Harv Eker
The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it.
— Anatole France
It doesn't take long to stay an hour.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy, a few people have their way; in a democracy, no one has his way.
— Celia Green
Who is fit to be elected?' asked Napoleon. 'A Caesar, an Alexander only comes along once a century, so that election must be a matter of chance.
— Simon Sebag Montefiore
Down with tyranny!' Bramble cried. 'Aristocracy! Autocracy! Monocracy! Other ocracy things! You are outnumbered, sir! Surrender!
— Heather Dixon
Wars are begun by frightened men.
— Tom Clancy
A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
— Charles Kettering
In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.
— John Charles Polanyi
