Quotes About Autocracy

In many countries, schools are preparing students to participate in a democratic environment; yet schools themselves tend to be extremely autocratic, with all high-level decisions being made by adults.

Some even claim that I'm a terror, a dictator and they're right.

An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins.

Every tyrant who ever lived has believed in freedom — for himself.

Putin is going to do what Putin is going to do.

Mr. Putin presents himself as a czar - and like any czar, he fears revolution above all else.

The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.

You can't imagine a free market coupled with a dictatorship.

It's an old, old trick of autocratic rule," Idaho said. "Alia knows it well. Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in the populace.

Bons súditos devem sentir culpa. A culpa começa como uma sensação de fracasso. O bom autocrata fornece muitas oportunidades de fracasso para o seu povo.

It's an old, old trick of autocratic rule. Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in the populace.

Tú estabas dotado para mí de eso tan enigmático que poseen los tiranos, cuyo derecho está basado en la propia persona, no en el pensamiento.

If Republican leaders are willing to enable Trump's autocratic enthusiasms in return for oligarchy, American democracy will die.

rule by one man, rule by the many, or rule by the few.

Un gobierno desorganizado y sin objetivos claros puede derivar en una autocracia.

Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one.

Just as the West's support for the Afghan jihad against the Soviets in the 1980s laid the ground for the rise of Islamist terrorism, so America's Faustian post-9/11 pacts with autocratic regimes helped sow the seeds for the world's current democratic recession.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

Democracy without meritocracy is just hypocrisy and no different from autocracy.

It is the common wish of the people that the autocratic rule of the Manchu government be overthrown, that the Republic of China be strengthened, and that people's livelihood and welfare be pursued.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Tocqueville presciently claimed that the strength of the American government was to a large extent the result of its democratic incapacity to run the nation and the economy as coherently and effectively as a monarchical or autocratic government might run it.

The sin of all time has been the exercise of assumed powers. This is the essence of tyranny.

I've met quite a few dictators up close and personal in my life.