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  • I would have to point out in the strongest terms the autocracy of the Liberal structure and the cowardice of its members. I have never seen in all my examination of politics so degrading a spectacle as that of all these Liberals turning their coats in unison with their Chief, when they saw the chance to take power.

    "Cite libre" Journal, April 1963.
  • I know a whole generation has been raised on the notion of multiculturalism; that all civilizations are just different. No! Not always. Sometimes things are better! Rule of law is better than autocracy and theocracy; equality of the sexes, better; protection of minorities, better; free speech, better; free elections, better; free appliances with large purchases, better! Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance.

    Sex   Law   Civilization  
    "Bill Maher: Victory Begins at Home". Documentary, Comedy, 2003.
  • The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. Liberty is not foolproof. For its beneficent working it demands self-restraint, a sane and clear recognition of the practical and attainable, and of the fact that there are laws of nature which are beyond our power to change.

    Self   Law   Democracy  
    Otto Hermann Kahn (1918). “Frenzied liberty: the myth of "a rich man's war"”
  • 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.

    Writing   Artist   Oxygen  
    "'You can't help being what you write'". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2008.
  • Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and embellish the lot of the oppressed with empty promises of a heavenly kingdom.

  • It would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can and do make grave mistakes. They know it, they pay the penalty, but compared with the mistakes which have been made by every kind of autocracy they are unimportant.

    Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”
  • No outdoor sports can be more elegant than throwing stones at autocracy; no melees can be more exciting than those in cyberspace.

    Ai Weiwei Twitter feed: @AiWW, March 10, 2010.
  • The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it.

    Anatole France (2016). “The Revolt of the Angels”, p.36, Xist Publishing
  • As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of fanatics has once more, as frequently in the past, proved the effective helpmate of autocracy and the twin-brother of tyranny.

    Brother   Freedom   Past  
    Otto Hermann Kahn (1918). “Frenzied Liberty: The Myth of "a Rich Man's War"”
  • As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.

    Otto Hermann Kahn (1918). “Frenzied Liberty: The Myth of "a Rich Man's War"”
  • And who can suffer injury by just taxation, impartial laws and the application of the Jeffersonian doctrine of equal rights to all and special privileges to none? Only those whose accumulations are stained with dishonesty and whose immoral methods have given them a distorted view of business, society and government. Accumulating by conscious frauds more money than they can use upon themselves, wisely distribute or safely leave to their children, these denounce as public enemies all who question their methods or throw a light upon their crimes.

    Light   Enemy   Bankers  
    Speech at Madison Square Garden, New York, August 30, 1906.
  • In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy, a few people have their way; in a democracy, no one has his way.

    Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton
  • Under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control.

    Noam Chomsky (2004). “Language and Politics”, p.138, AK Press
  • The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.

    Otto Hermann Kahn (1918). “Frenzied Liberty: The Myth of "a Rich Man's War"”
  • Every nation has its war party. It is not the party of democracy. It is the party of autocracy. It seeks to dominate absolutely.

    Peace   War   Party  
  • Journalism is one of the devices whereby industrial autocracy keeps its control over political democracy; it is the day-by-day, between-elections propaganda, whereby the minds of the people are kept in a state of acquiescence, so that when the crisis of an election comes, they go to the polls and cast their ballots for either one of the two candidates of their exploiters.

    Two   People   Political  
    Upton Sinclair (2015). “The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism”, p.236, Open Road Media
  • Watching both the health care and climate/energy debates in Congress, it is hard not to draw the following conclusion: There is only one thing worse than one-party autocracy, and that is one-party democracy, which is what we have in America today. One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also have great advantages.

    Stupid   Party   America  
  • 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.

  • The chief support of an autocracy is a standing army. The chief support of a democracy is an educated people.

    Army   People   Support  
  • The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.

  • The autocracies of the Arab world have been as economically destructive as they've been politically repressive.

    "The Tyrant Tax". www.newyorker.com. March 7, 2011.
  • Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.

    Bernard Crick (1993). “In Defense of Politics”, p.40, University of Chicago Press
  • A government with all this mass of favours to give or to withhold, however free in name, wields a power of bribery scarcely surpassed by an avowed autocracy, rendering it master of the elections in almost any circumstances but those of rare and extraordinary public excitement.

    John Stuart Mill (1964). “Collected works of John Stuart Mill”
  • In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.

  • While American men are fighting to rid the old world of autocracy let American women set to and rid the new world of this intolerable old burden of sex ignorance.

    Sex   War   Ignorance  
    Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution”, Oxford University Press, USA
  • Take a look at the police and how they treat you, Take a look at these corporations that cheat you. Democrats and Republicans are all see-through. Now we votin for the lesser of two evils... Man, don't let 'em deceive you. This is an autocracy, not a democracy, But to call this a democracy without mock interest In the laws of society? That's called hypocrisy.

    Rap   Men   Law  
  • Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy.

    Evil   Etc   Oppression  
  • It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Witness the most famous of all trials. Pilate was, from the standpoint of the Jews, certainly the representative of autocracy. Yet he tried to protect freedom. And he yielded to a democracy.

  • Orthodox churches, autocracy and national traditions are supposed to form a new national ideology in Russia. This would mean that Russia would be overtaken by its past, and our past would be our future.

    Mean   Past   Russia  
    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • They realize that in thirty-four months we have built up new instruments of public power. In the hands of a peoples Government this power is wholesome and proper. But in the hands of political puppets of an economic autocracy such power would provide shackles for the liberties of the people.

    Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.16, Best Books on
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