In an autocratic society, can you innovate? You can…

“I think as long as humans don’t solve this human nature trait of sort of settling into a world-view after a while, there will…

— Adam Lashinsky

“young professionals seeking cities to live and work in, and a wave of immigrants in inner-city neighborhoods and inner suburbs that eventually produced second-generation…

— Timothy Keller

No organization ever created an innovation. People innovate, not companies.

— Seth Godin

For me, one of the most fertile consequences of the space program is the extent to which it stimulates people to innovate because they…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

If you really want you people to innovate, buy a science fiction book, tear off the covers, and tell them it's history.

— Nolan Bushnell

Non-profits should be looking to enlist and retain the best people to aggressively solve problems, not to perform adequately and persist. We should expect…

— Andrew Yang

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

I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.

— Alan Parker

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