The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but…

The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. Liberty is not foolproof. For its beneficent working it demands self-restraint, a sane…

— Otto Hermann Kahn

As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of fanatics has…

— Otto Hermann Kahn

“The only way, they argued, to prevent a revolution was to rule Russia with an iron hand. This meant defending the autocratic principle, the…

— Orlando Figes

“The old vicious cycle of empires threatened to repeat itself, the old story of the many led by the few. Always it had come,…

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

A government with all this mass of favours to give or to withhold, however free in name, wields a power of bribery scarcely surpassed…

— Anonymous

I know a whole generation has been raised on the notion of multiculturalism; that all civilizations are just different. No! Not always. Sometimes things…

— Bill Maher

The Chinese, as befits a Communist autocracy, approached the task of dominating the Olympics with top-down military discipline.

— Shashi Tharoor

In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy, a few people have their way; in a democracy, no one has his…

— Celia Green

Trump wants to be an autocrat, he does want to be a Vladimir Putin-style ruler. His chief strategic advisor, Steve Bannon, is a follower…

— Malcolm Wrightson Nance

The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it.

— Anatole France

“As long as the United States remains a democracy, I want to be in the ideological fight against illiberal nationalism and continue to make…

— Michael McFaul

“Democracy in books is, for the people, by the people, democracy on street is rule of the apes in a land of sheep.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“The Chinese state, from the days of the Qin, was an efficient, bureaucratized autocracy. Yet to this day, China has never developed the rule…

— Nicholas Wade

The memoirs of the Grand Duchess Olga are an entertaining record for anyone interested in the imperial family's home life during the last years…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

Orthodox churches, autocracy and national traditions are supposed to form a new national ideology in Russia. This would mean that Russia would be overtaken…

— Vladimir Sorokin