Believe Quote by Albert Einstein

“An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion soon degenerates. For force always attract men of low morality.”

— Albert Einstein

Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart…

— Ben Nicholson

Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.

— Albert Einstein

A state of war or anarchy, in which law has little force, is so far valuable, that it puts every man on trial. The…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We have a new type of rule now. Not one man rule, or rule of aristocracy, or plutocracy, but of small groups elevated to…

— William S. Burroughs

The temptation to moralize is strong; it is emotionally satisfying to have enemies rather than problems, to seek out culprits rather than the flaws…

— William Sloane Coffin

“It has always astonished me, Georgy Daniilovich, that those who are most repulsed by autocratic or dictatorial rule are among the first to eliminate…

— John Boyne

We have created stability, which is a necessary condition for development. But I can't call this system authoritarian.

— Vladimir Putin

“In a society where those who always work never have anything, while those who never work enjoy everything, solidarity of interests is non-existent; hence…

— Emma Goldman

Liberty'''.that condition of man in which coercion of some by others is reduced as much as possible in society

— Friedrich August von Hayek

The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.

— Edward Abbey

After many unhappy experiments in the direction of an ideal Republic, it was found that what may be described as a Despotism tempered by…

— W. S. Gilbert