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Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another. -- Alastair Reynolds
Autocratic leadership existed in Russia for many centuries, changing only its ideological colors and method of legitimization. -- Lilia Shevtsova
Despotism has forever had a powerful hold upon the world. Autocratic government, not self-government, has been the prevailing state of mankind. The record of past history is the record, not of the success of republics, but of their failure. -- Calvin Coolidge
Our mass movement will shatter this communal, fascist and autocratic center. -- Lalu Prasad Yadav
I played a lot of leaders, autocratic sorts; perhaps it was my Canadian accent. -- Leslie Nielsen
Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses. We don't live in that world anymore. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality. -- Beau Willimon
In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation. -- Maggie Gallagher
I actually bought the argument that if we democratized Iraq, we could create a space for venting some of the stuff that's going on in the Middle East in these autocratic regimes that is expressing itself through jihadism, because it has nowhere else to express itself. -- Andrew Sullivan
Look, I don't think President Obama would have bowed to the ruler of Saudi Arabia if he didn't have oil to the degree that the Saudis do. I think they and other producing states, almost all of whom, except Norway and Canada, are dictatorships or autocratic systems, have thrown their weight around because of oil. -- James Woolsey
I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic. -- Alan Parker
No central planning, no autocratic rule and no military regime can produce what free man can do. -- Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion soon degenerates. For force always attract men of low morality. -- Albert Einstein
Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government. -- William Lyon Mackenzie King
There is a sweetness in being the sole source, the autocratic and irresponsible cause of the greatest joy and profoundest pain to another. -- Ivan Turgenev
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. -- Adora Svitak
The prince in 'The Leopard' was a very complex character - at times autocratic, rude, strong - at times romantic, good, understanding - and sometimes even stupid, and above all, mysterious. -- Luchino Visconti
It has always astonished me, Georgy Daniilovich, that those who are most repulsed by autocratic or dictatorial rule are among the first to eliminate their enemies once they take on the mantle of power themselves. -- John Boyne
Pnin slowly walked under solemn pines. The sky was dying. He did not believe in an autocratic God. He did believe, dimly, in a democracy of ghosts. The souls of the dead, perhaps, formed committees, and these, in continuous session, attended the destinies of the quick. -- Vladimir Nabokov
Fashion is aristocratic-autocratic. -- J. G. Holland
In America nature is autocratic, saying, "I am not arguing, I am telling you. -- Erik Erikson
How is it that the Church produced no geometer in her autocratic reign of twelve hundred years? -- John William Draper
You cannot apply your high standards to a country [Egypt] burdened with decades of autocratic rule. Our democracy is still in its infancy. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels. -- Albert Einstein
There are certain narrow, umimaginative, and autocratic old people who seem to call out the most mischievous and sometimes the worst traits in children. -- Kate Douglas Wiggin
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
A lot of Arabs have proven to themselves that there is an alternative to Bin Laden-ism if they want to do away with the corrupt, autocratic regimes in their countries. -- Irshad Manji
The prince in The Leopard was a very complex character - at times autocratic, rude, strong - at times romantic, good, understanding - and sometimes even stupid, and above all, mysterious. -- Luchino Visconti
Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy. -- Honore de Balzac
It amazes me that some people who ordinarily can recognize autocratic bullying, tacky sloganeering, and - especially - camp value are unable to spot it in this Hate Scare that grips the Western world. -- Jim Goad
A republican government is in a hundred points weaker than one that is autocratic; but in this one point it is the strongest that ever existed-it has educated a race of men that are men. -- Henry Ward Beecher

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