Autocracy Quotes

We are not exporting autocracy, and it makes no sense to export democracy. Democracy is not a bag of potatoes that can be planted in any place and successfully grown. - Sergei Ivanov

The seven-party alliance's Joint Movement Taskforce Committee has decided to launch nationwide protests against autocracy. - Rajendra Prasad Pandey

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 or the errors of autocracy. - John Maynard Keynes

The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. - Otto Hermann Kahn

Nationhood is more likely to guarantee autocracy, decadence and corruption than real democracy. - Martin Dansky

Judicial supremacy, judicial autocracy. - Tom DeLay

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 the tempers of their lords, but democratic states according to established laws. - Aeschines

In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy. - John Charles Polanyi

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 work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen. - Tom Stoppard

Having just won a fight against autocracy, we would start an autocratic movement with this bill. - William Greene