"To be a great autocrat you must be…" — Joseph Conrad
"To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian."
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235 Quotes by Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad has 235 quotes on this site.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which…
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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.
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The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land.
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Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
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The last thing a woman will consent to in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends,…
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It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when he is human,…
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What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a…
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Things and men have always a certain sense, a certain side by which they must be got hold of if…
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A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence.
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More Autocrat Quotes
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The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our…
— Abraham Lincoln
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No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
— Lawrence Durrell
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Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat,…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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True leadership must have follower-ship. Management styles can vary, but even an autocrat needs people who believe and simply don't…
— James D. Robinson III
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I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.
— Catherine the Great
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The cast, staff, and crew of a live theater work together toward a common goal: a good performance. Thus, theater…
— Laurence Sterne
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Every first-rate editor I have ever heard of reads, edits and rewrites every word that goes into his publication.... Good…
— Peter Drucker
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I loved Jack Ford. I got him in his later days, and he was a total tyrant and a total…
— Richard Widmark
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Maoists want a directly elected president, but this will give birth to an autocrat.
— Sushil Koirala
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