Autocracy Quotes

24 quotes by 22 authors

Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and… — Vladimir Lenin
As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of fanatics has once… — Otto Hermann Kahn
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 and… — Otto Hermann Kahn
Every nation has its war party. It is not the party of democracy. It is the party of autocracy. It seeks to dominate absolutely. — 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 peoples Government this power is… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy,… — Abraham Lincoln
It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Witness the most famous of all trials. Pilate was, from… — 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 in cyberspace. — Ai Weiwei
It would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can and do make grave mistakes. They know it, they pay… — Calvin Coolidge
In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy. — John Charles Polanyi
Watching both the health care and climate/energy debates in Congress, it is hard not to draw the following conclusion: There is only one thing worse… — Thomas Friedman
A government with all this mass of favours to give or to withhold, however free in name, wields a power of bribery scarcely surpassed by… — John Stuart Mill
It is acknowledged, namely, that there are in the world three forms of government, autocracy, oligarchy, and democracy: autocracies and oligarchies are administered according to… — Aeschines
I would have to point out in the strongest terms the autocracy of the Liberal structure and the cowardice of its members. I have never… — Pierre Trudeau
The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it. — Anatole France
The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas… — John Maynard Keynes
I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who… — Tom Stoppard
The autocracies of the Arab world have been as economically destructive as they've been politically repressive. — James Surowiecki

Who Wrote These Autocracy Quotes

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