Autocracy Quote by Bernard Crick Download Open image “Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.” — Bernard Crick ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Autocracy Totalitarianism
Totalitarianism is not about some state that appears out of nowhere and suddenly is all-powerful. There can't be any such thing. Totalitarianism starts when… — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular opinion, even totalitarian dictatorships are dependent on the population and the societies they rule. — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
The totalitarian phenomenon is not to be understood without making an allowance for the thesis that some important part of every society consists of… — Jean Francois Revel Copy Share Image
To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Totalitarian is a cliché, dictatorship is based on clichéd thinking, on very tried and tested uniform stuff. They don't mind that they're boring, they… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Politics deserves much praise. Politics is a preoccupation of free men, and its existence is a test of freedom. The praise of free men… — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
What matters in Politics is what men actually do - sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled by politics… — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
If, of course, one builds into the concept of an 'individual' all that Professor Hayek does in his Road To Serfdom, Individualism and Economic… — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage. — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
Since the business of politics is the conciliation of differing interests, justice must not merely be done, but to be seen to be done. — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself. — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking. — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
Politics are, as it were, the market place and the price mechanism of all social demands - though there is no guarantee that a… — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
“Revolutions as often take place because the old regime simply collapse out of economic inefficiency and bureaucratic rigidity rather than for the reasons given… — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
The political process is not tied to any particular doctrine. Genuine political doctrines, rather, are the attempt to find particular and workable solutions to… — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence...politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good. — Bernard Crick 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 be overtaken… — 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 last years… — 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 sheep.” — Abhijit Naskar 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 to make… — Michael McFaul Copy Share Image
The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it. — Anatole France 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 has his… — Celia Green 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, a sane… — Otto Hermann Kahn 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
I know a whole generation has been raised on the notion of multiculturalism; that all civilizations are just different. No! Not always. Sometimes things… — Bill Maher 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 scarcely surpassed… — Anonymous 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 principle, the… — Orlando Figes 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 fanatics has… — Otto Hermann Kahn Copy Share Image
