Top 17 Quotes About Autocratic Government
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. The best thing to do when you find yourself in a hurting or vulnerable place is to surround yourself with the strongest, finest, most positive people you know.
Kristin Armstrong
#4. The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.
Beau Willimon
#5. Sometimes a writer is inspired by the moment, more often they are prepared.
Loron-Jon Stokes
#6. Socialism is socialism. Government run enterprises are just as inept under democratic governments as they are under autocratic governments.
Thomas J. DiLorenzo
#8. In the midst of Our great grief,' announced Alexander III, 'the voice of God bids Us to stand staunchly for government relying on God's design with faith in the truth of autocratic power.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
#9. And I took a walk and I just went to prayer and I said Lord, what would you have me do in the Minnesota state senate? And just through prayer I knew that I was to introduce the marriage amendment in Minnesota.
Michele Bachmann
#10. There are five fundamental qualities that make every team great: communication, trust, collective responsibility, caring and pride. I like to think of each as a separate finger on the fist. Any one individually is important. But all of them together are unbeatable
Mike Krzyzewski
#11. Yes, I think India's economy always has been a mixed economy, and by Western standards we are much more of a market economy than a public sector-driven economy.
Manmohan Singh
#12. Like most children, theirs was a relation based on verbs, not nouns.
Zadie Smith
#13. 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
#14. There is a long history of monetary experience. It tells us that government is at heart a counterfeiter and therefore cannot be trusted to control money, and that this is true of both autocratic and popular government.
Garet Garrett
#15. 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
#16. They have a quick verbal exchange but only get to cover the alphabet from A to F, outdoing each other with the most choice of words.
Melina Marchetta
#17. I got into theatre very early, so yes I was surrounded by gay people quite early and frequently.
Judith Light
