Autocracy Quotes
24 quotes by 22 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.
— Otto Hermann Kahn
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The chief support of an autocracy is a standing army. The chief support of a democracy is an educated people.
— Lotus Coffman
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No outdoor sports can be more elegant than throwing stones at autocracy; no melees can be more exciting than those in cyberspace.
— Ai Weiwei
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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
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In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.
— John Charles Polanyi
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it.
— Anatole France
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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
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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
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The autocracies of the Arab world have been as economically destructive as they've been politically repressive.
— James Surowiecki
Who Wrote These Autocracy Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 24 Autocracy Quotes as follows: