You cannot apply your high standards to a country [Egypt]…

“It’s an old, old trick of autocratic rule,” Idaho said. “Alia knows it well. Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a…

— Frank Herbert

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

— Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

We pray for this beloved country, Egypt, for God to protect her safety, security, stability; to protect her unity and more so, her image.

— Anonymous

Family rule is out and out against democracy.

— J. Jayalalithaa

“It is their mores, then, that make the Americans of the United States...capable of maintaining the rule of democracy… Too much importance is attached…

— Naomi Wolf

Politicians that proclaim big words without meaning rule in democracy. At best they allow themselves to discover that it's better to be rich and…

— Janusz Korwin-Mikke

The first rule of democracy is to distrust all leaders who begin to believe their own publicity.

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

Democracy is premised, in some measure, on majority rule, and democracy is difficult in a situation of concentrated inequalities in which a large, impoverished…

— Samuel P. Huntington

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