Top 38 Quotes About Autocrat
#1. The speed with which armies collapse, bureaucracies abdicate, and social structures dissolve once the autocrat is removed frequently surprises American Policy makers.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
#2. Do I use VORP? I may be using it and not even know it, and if I am, it's nobody's business. There are a lot of different criteria in judging players. I think I use, um, esoteric qualitative mathematical review times five. That's one of them.
Ned Colletti
#3. Why is mania bad, if it means you're on top of the world, where everything is white? Bright.
Ellen Hopkins
#4. The Autocrat of Russia possesses more power than any other man in the earth; but he cannot stop a sneeze.
Mark Twain
#5. See, whoever said I was an autocrat was clearly mistaken. I represented the height of representative democracy where everyone gets a vote. Mine just counted for more than all the other ones combined, when you read the final tally; that's all.
Luke Sky Wachter
#6. DNA is not an autocrat. Animal behaviour is also influenced by environmental factors and individual quirks.
Yuval Noah Harari
#7. Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#8. I'm not much of a musical-goer; they don't really appeal to me.
Julian Ovenden
#9. Hats off, gentlemen - a genius! If the mighty autocrat of the north knew what a dangerous enemy threatened him in Chopin's works in the simple tunes of his mazurkas, he would forbid this music. Chopin's works are canons buried in flowers.
Frederic Chopin
#10. To love and be loved. That is the meaning of life.
Cheryl Strayed
#11. The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves.
Abraham Lincoln
#12. Democratization is not democracy; it is a slogan for the temporary liberalization handed down from an autocrat. Glasnost is not free speech; only free speech, constitutionally guaranteed, is free speech.
Gail Sheehy
#13. True leadership must have follower-ship. Management styles can vary, but even an autocrat needs people who believe and simply don't follow from fear.
James D. Robinson III
#14. All the bruised lives, searching hearts ... Everyone wants a love story but few will risk what it takes to live one.
Donna Lynn Hope
#15. Indeed we generally remember ancient civilizations best by those buildings which most exploited the labor of ordinary people and most glorified the vanity of a single autocrat.
Chris Brazier
#16. I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.
Catherine The Great
#17. Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in the populace.
Frank Herbert
#18. Maoists want a directly elected president, but this will give birth to an autocrat.
Sushil Koirala
#19. We should walk together, work together and progress together. We should move ahead with this mantra.
Narendra Modi
#20. After many unhappy experiments in the direction of an ideal Republic, it was found that what may be described as a Despotism tempered by Dynamite provides, on the whole, the most satisfactory description of ruler - an autocrat who dares not abuse his autocratic power.
W.S. Gilbert
#21. N]either antiquity nor any other nation has imagined a more atrocious and blasphemous absurdity than that of eating God. This is how Christians treat the autocrat of the universe.
Frederick The Great
#22. I like the consistency of having people in my life for a long time.
David LaChapelle
#23. Capitalism's surplus was enough to sate any rational autocrat.
Anonymous
#24. One day they might even say that I was another Ryan Giggs.
George Best
#25. To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
Joseph Conrad
#26. I was never trained for anything.
Alan Ladd
#27. If I am judged for my work, many myths about me as an autocrat or otherwise would become clearer. I feel false propaganda will not last, and truth will ultimately prevail.
Narendra Modi
#28. She was an autocrat, didn't really believe in democracy. The benefit of her approach was that, if you work with twenty people and ask everybody's opinion, you would never achieve what she did.
Theresa Sjoquist
#29. Sight is a slick and overbearing autocrat, trumpeting its prodigal knowledge and perceptions so forcefully that it drowns out the other, subtler senses.
Rosemary Mahoney
#30. Too many people are confusing charisma with autocrat, fat cat. So I think we have to be a little more sophisticated when we hold up or tear down these stereotypes. Whether we call it charisma or not, a leader cannot be self-effacing to the point of being wimpy.
Noel Tichy
#31. In the 1990s, I was among those Indonesians who demanded and celebrated the departure of our own autocrat, Suharto, and I joined the new government when he left.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
#32. No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
Lawrence Durrell
#33. I suddenly remember something I've been told about fear. That amid a hail of machine gun fire you notice the existence of your skin.
Marguerite Duras
#34. The ocean has the conscienceless temper of a savage autocrat spoiled by much adulation
Joseph Conrad
#35. I loved Jack Ford. I got him in his later days, and he was a total tyrant and a total autocrat and an Irish drunk. But I had a great time.
Richard Widmark
#37. I want to be like the air. The good-hearted person whose kindness overflows and people realize how important she was to them, once she is gone. I want to be that kind of person.
Aya Kito
#38. Are all Cabinets congeries of little autocrats with a super-autocrat presiding over them?
Beatrice Webb
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