Autocracy Quotes

Autocracy is a government of the few from above; Bolshevism is a government of the few from below. Ameen Rihani
Government Few Above Autocracy Bolshevism Below
Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy. David Harsanyi
Genocide Oppression Evil Rapidly Torture More Could Implemented Occasional Policy Autocracy Etc Public Aside Public Policy
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
Power National Excessive Part Ideas Powers Greater Errors Than May Autocracy Convention Either Bursting Played Disruptive Bonds
In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy. John Polanyi
Democracy Nation Taken Autocracy After Place
The Republicans want an autocracy where the rights of minorities and others are not protected. Malcolm Nance
Rights Others Minorities Protected Autocracy Where Want Republicans
Sometimes, when democracy has to fight with autocracy, what can be done? We have to fight; somebody has to. Mamata Banerjee
Democracy Fight Sometimes Somebody Done Autocracy
The Chinese, as befits a Communist autocracy, approached the task of dominating the Olympics with top-down military discipline. Shashi Tharoor
Discipline Military Dominating Task Autocracy Chinese Communist Olympics
'The Secret Agent' remains the most brilliant novelistic study of terrorism as viewed from the blood-spattered outside. But 'Under Western Eyes' dares to leap inside - not only into the terrorist mind, but also into the troubled zone that divides West from East, 'the autocracy in mystic vestments.' Tom Reiss
Terrorism Eyes Brilliant Mind Secret Secret Agent East Dares Inside Only Remains Divides Mystic Troubled Outside Study Most Leap Also Terrorist West Western Autocracy Agent Viewed Zone
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
Work Freedom Dictatorship Pure Secretly Slightly Totalitarian Write Envied Put Idea Readers Authorities Intense Jail Artists Autocracy Oxygen Want While Interest Interested Them Younger Working Who Gratification Whom

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