Conservatives are giving up on democracy because it's not…

“Elizabeth set an example to the monarchs of her day and of subsequent epochs, in that she never arrogated to herself the position of…

— Stefan Zweig

I don't want to take power. I want to break the wall of this autocratic regime.

— Ksenia Sobchak

...this remedy is the power of the citizens; they have to prevent the establishment of such an autocratic regime that arrogates to itself a…

— Ludwig von Mises

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

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