Autocrats Quotes
10 quotes by 9 authors
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The American feels too rich in his opportunities for free expression that he often no longer knows what he is free from. Neither does he…
— Erik Erikson
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Every solitary one of these aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the war is being…
— Eugene V. Debs
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We like democracy because why? The pathologies of the U.S. version are so obvious in the aftermath of the latest averted crisis that we need…
— Noah Feldman
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The cast, staff, and crew of a live theater work together toward a common goal: a good performance. Thus, theater is necessarily a group effort.…
— Laurence Sterne
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The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
— Ludwig von Mises
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What has destroyed liberty and the rights of man in every government which has ever existed under the sun? The generalizing and concentrating all cares…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed,…
— Helen Keller
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You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don't love…
— Tom Hiddleston
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Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their ''evil'' look at such times is no human projection:…
— Camille Paglia
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Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed,…
— Helen Keller
Who Wrote These Autocrats Quotes
9 authors contributed a total of 10 Autocrats Quotes as follows: