I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned…

In the post-Soviet era, instead of freedom, various stripes of autocratic-totalitarianism have flourished: Russian, Belarusian, Kazakh... We are finding our way out from under…

— Svetlana Alexievich

“It has always astonished me, Georgy Daniilovich, that those who are most repulsed by autocratic or dictatorial rule are among the first to eliminate…

— John Boyne

An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion, soon degenerates. For force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be…

— Albert Einstein

Fashion is aristocratic-autocratic.

— J. G. Holland

Autocratic power requires the degradation of moral authority - not the capture of moral high ground.

— Masha Gessen

“If the master allows himself to be commanded by a servant, the latter becomes autocratic; the mind is similarly enslaved by submitting to bodily…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

I played a lot of leaders, autocratic sorts; perhaps it was my Canadian accent.

— Leslie Nielsen

No central planning, no autocratic rule and no military regime can produce what free man can do.

— Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

A republican government in a hundred points is weaker than an autocratic government; but in this one point it is the strongest that ever…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.

— Beau Willimon

“An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion soon degenerates. For force always attract men of low morality.”

— Albert Einstein

Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses. We don't live in that world anymore.

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another.

— Alastair Reynolds

You cannot apply your high standards to a country [Egypt] burdened with decades of autocratic rule. Our democracy is still in its infancy.

— Mohamed ElBaradei