In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy. — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. — Otto Hermann Kahn Copy Share Image
In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy, a few people have their way; in a democracy, no one… — Celia Green Copy Share Image
The war has begun between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi. Modi's rule is autocracy and Rahul's soul is democracy. — Vijayashanti Copy Share Image
The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“Democracy in books is, for the people, by the people, democracy on street is rule of the apes in a land of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The Chinese, as befits a Communist autocracy, approached the task of dominating the Olympics with top-down military discipline. — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“Democracy; Everyone's opinion is required! Autocracy; Someone's opinion is the best! Christocracy; What Christ said is FINAL!” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Alexander II really used autocracy well to negotiate the freeing of the serfs in 1861. — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
The autocracies of the Arab world have been as economically destructive as they've been politically repressive. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Orthodox churches, autocracy and national traditions are supposed to form a new national ideology in Russia. This would mean that Russia would… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
The memoirs of the Grand Duchess Olga are an entertaining record for anyone interested in the imperial family's home life during the… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
Which, autocracy or democracy, is really better suited to modern China? If we base our judgment upon the intelligence and the ability… — Sun Yat-sen Copy Share Image
“To the less privileged it was this arbitrariness that made the regime's power feel so oppressive. There were no clear principles or… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
It is acknowledged, namely, that there are in the world three forms of government, autocracy, oligarchy, and democracy: autocracies and oligarchies are… — Aeschines Copy Share Image
The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
A government with all this mass of favours to give or to withhold, however free in name, wields a power of bribery… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“But no one who studies autocratic propaganda believes that fact-checking or even swift reactions are sufficient. By the time the correction is… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
In tribal times, there were the medicine men. In the Middle Ages, there were the priests. Today, there are the lawyers. For… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
They realize that in thirty-four months we have built up new instruments of public power. In the hands of a peoples Government… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. Liberty is not foolproof. For its beneficent working it demands self-restraint,… — Otto Hermann Kahn Copy Share Image
“As long as the United States remains a democracy, I want to be in the ideological fight against illiberal nationalism and continue… — Michael McFaul Copy Share Image
“The only way, they argued, to prevent a revolution was to rule Russia with an iron hand. This meant defending the autocratic… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
“The Chinese state, from the days of the Qin, was an efficient, bureaucratized autocracy. Yet to this day, China has never developed… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
“The old vicious cycle of empires threatened to repeat itself, the old story of the many led by the few. Always it… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
“No man has the right to rule over another man, otherwise such a right necessarily, and immediately becomes the right of the… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
The chief support of an autocracy is a standing army. The chief support of a democracy is an educated people. — Lotus Coffman Copy Share Image
No outdoor sports can be more elegant than throwing stones at autocracy; no melees can be more exciting than those in cyberspace. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
While American men are fighting to rid the old world of autocracy let American women set to and rid the new world… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
“Thinking citizens are no good to democracy, either you obey blind or be branded a terrorist. Either you hold your mouth, mind… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of… — Otto Hermann Kahn Copy Share Image
Journalism is one of the devices whereby industrial autocracy keeps its control over political democracy; it is the day-by-day, between-elections propaganda, whereby… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Power has to be protected from scrutiny. That's the principle of every dictatorship, of every autocracy. You hear it from high priests… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I know a whole generation has been raised on the notion of multiculturalism; that all civilizations are just different. No! Not always.… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
And who can suffer injury by just taxation, impartial laws and the application of the Jeffersonian doctrine of equal rights to all… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
Washington was a charismatic leader with singular judgment who might have usurped a republic still in infancy, when precedent did not weigh… — Jake Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in… — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
