No central planning, no autocratic rule and no military…

“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

You cannot apply your high standards to a country [Egypt] burdened with decades of autocratic rule. Our democracy is still in its infancy.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

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

— Ksenia Sobchak

“We spent time on Burma and the need for the military regime there to understand that they shouldn't fear the voices of people. And…

— George W. Bush

You don't help a country by supporting a military regime that denies any sign of democracy, and what defeated Pakistan was its military regime.

— Indira Gandhi

If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the…

— Ibrahim Babangida

In 2008, Putin's message was, 'We aren't like a Central Asian republic, we aren't going to build a personalistic regime, we will have institutions.'…

— Ivan Krastev

I don't think like a central planner. We think in terms of a regime of freedom.

— Javier Milei

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