Quotes About Autocracy

Are all Cabinets congeries of little autocrats with a super-autocrat presiding over them?

Tyranny is yielding to the lust of governing.

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

unchecked power corrupts.  

Communism is a Russian autocracy turned upside down.

I would have thought it was the sort of house a vampire lived in if I hadn't been aware that vampire stories were superstitious legends designed to subjugate the enslaved rural classes into unquestioning obedience of feudal autocracy.

Whoopi Goldberg looked like me, she had hair like mine, she was dark like me. I'd been starved for images of myself. I'd grown up watching a lot of American TV. There was very little Kenyan material, because we had an autocratic ruler who stifled our creative expression.

The single despot stands out in the face of all men, and says: I am the State: My will is law: I am your master: I take the responsibility of my acts: The only arbiter I acknowledge is the sword: If any one denies my right, let him try conclusions with me.

absolute power is corrupting

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Concentrated political power is the most dangerous thing on earth.

Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.

When liberty becomes license, some form of one-man power is not far distant.

Tyranny always starts auspiciously.

I must admit that I feel that the best form of government is benevolent despotism.

en una dictadura, la expresión estar en libertad no significa lo mismo que ser libre.

No matter how superficially fair the judge is, he is still the complete autocrat in the courtroom, and he still comes from the ruling class.

In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.

Just as kingly rule is the best, so is the rule of the tyrant the worst.

Sapiens by contrast is more like a banana republic dictator. Having

Sapiens by contrast is more like a banana republic dictator.

America is too democratic at home to be autocratic abroad.

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.

La dictadura es como una aria y nunca llega a ser ópera.