The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. — Otto Hermann Kahn Copy Share Image
In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy. — John Charles Polanyi 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
Every nation has its war party. It is not the party of democracy. It is the party of autocracy. It seeks to… — Robert M. La Follette, Sr 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
“Free people were not ruled. Freedom had first to be valued before its existence could be demanded.” — Terry Goodkind 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
Alexander II really used autocracy well to negotiate the freeing of the serfs in 1861. — Simon Sebag Montefiore 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
Sometimes, when democracy has to fight with autocracy, what can be done? We have to fight; somebody has to. — Mamata Banerjee 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
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
It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Witness the most famous of all trials.… — Joseph A. Schumpeter 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
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
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
It was always presumptuous to expect Russia, an ancient nation-state and proud empire of distinct culture with a tradition of autocracy, to… — Simon Sebag Montefiore 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
The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more… — Abraham Lincoln 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
“The rights and liberties represented by democracy, many agreed, were losing ground across the globe to restrictions imposed by authoritarian autocracy… It… — Aberjhani 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
“In the mind of the ordinary peasant the Tsar was not just a kingly ruler but a god on earth. He thought… — Orlando Figes 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
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
“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
“There are also those who delusively if not enthusiastically surrender their liberty for the mastermind’s false promises of human and societal perfectibility.… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it. — Anatole France 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
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
“In a democracy where the ignorant are in the majority, democracy always slides towards autocracy.” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Nationhood is more likely to guarantee autocracy, decadence and corruption than real democracy. — Martin Dansky Copy Share Image
Russia is leading a movement around the world to spread autocracy and authoritarianism. — Adam Schiff 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
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
