Democracy; Everyone's opinion is required! Autocracy…

The cast, staff, and crew of a live theater work together toward a common goal: a good performance. Thus, theater is necessarily a group…

— Laurence Sterne

We want to be masters of our own destiny. We need no Gods or Emperors. We do not believe in the existence of any…

— Wei Jingsheng

Are all Cabinets congeries of little autocrats with a super-autocrat presiding over them?

— Beatrice Webb

Rewarding the bad behavior of autocrats only emboldens them.

— Michael Waltz

The one source of criticism even the most repressive authoritarian leader cannot silence is the outside world. Autocrats are usually thin-skinned and like to…

— Chrystia Freeland

“The apotheosis of the controlling mind is monstrous and terrifying.”

— Stewart Stafford

I agree and I disagree in the sense that I think that he [Donald Trump] has a fondness for autocrats, but at the same…

— Greg Gutfeld

The American feels too rich in his opportunities for free expression that he often no longer knows what he is free from. Neither does…

— Erik Erikson

Dictatorial regimes often manage to keep themselves in power because they are recognized by foreigners as representing the state and its people, and therefore…

— Thomas Pogge

Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest.

— Camille Paglia

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