"The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy……" — Anatole France
"The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it."
More Autocracy Quotes
- Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force,… — Vladimir Lenin
- As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish… — Otto Hermann Kahn
- The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. Liberty is not foolproof. For its beneficent working it… — Otto Hermann Kahn
- Every nation has its war party. It is not the party of democracy. It is the party of autocracy. It… — Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
- They realize that in thirty-four months we have built up new instruments of public power. In the hands of a… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
- The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It… — Abraham Lincoln
- It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Witness the most famous of… — Joseph A. Schumpeter
- The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. — Otto Hermann Kahn
- The chief support of an autocracy is a standing army. The chief support of a democracy is an educated people. — Lotus Coffman
- No outdoor sports can be more elegant than throwing stones at autocracy; no melees can be more exciting than those… — Ai Weiwei
- It would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can and do make grave mistakes.… — Calvin Coolidge
- In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy. — John Charles Polanyi