"I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned……" — Alan Parker

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• Under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are… — Noam Chomsky
• Great leaders are paradoxical. They catalyze, rather control, the work of their teams. They have an overarching vision for the… — Guy Kawasaki
• An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion, soon degenerates. For force always attracts men of low morality, and I… — Albert Einstein
• Capital requires protection, as do the institutions through which it operates. As capital expands its operations, the state that is… — Michael Parenti
• I have long been aware that when an independent intellectual stands up to an autocratic state, step one toward freedom… — Liu Xia
• A lot of Arabs have proven to themselves that there is an alternative to Bin Laden-ism if they want to… — Irshad Manji
• Despotism has forever had a powerful hold upon the world. Autocratic government, not self-government, has been the prevailing state of… — Calvin Coolidge
• In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control… — Maggie Gallagher
• A republican government is in a hundred points weaker than one that is autocratic; but in this one point it… — Henry Ward Beecher
• There are certain narrow, umimaginative, and autocratic old people who seem to call out the most mischievous and sometimes the… — Kate Douglas Wiggin
• Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another. — Alastair Reynolds
• Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are, in principle, under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation… — Noam Chomsky

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