Quotes About Autocrats

#1. The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.

Ludwig Von Mises

#2. Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee ...

Howard Zinn

#3. Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their 'evil' look at such times is no human projection: the cat may be the only animal who savors the perverse or reflects upon it

Camille Paglia

#4. Are all Cabinets congeries of little autocrats with a super-autocrat presiding over them?

Beatrice Webb

#5. I'm very much into collaboration. I think that collaboration is the road to making something great. I respect artists that are more autocrats and are in control of their own projects, but it's not really my style. I've always had that partnership.

Tamaryn

#6. Ignorant, unconscious and dishonourable part of a society want and like kings, dictators, padishahs and all sort of despots; educated, conscious and honourable part of the same society hate and refuse monarchs, tyrants, oppressors and any kind of autocrats!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don't love themselves enough.

Tom Hiddleston

#8. The American feels too rich in his opportunities for free expression that he often no longer knows what he is free from. Neither does he know where he is not free; he does not recognize his native autocrats when he sees them.

Erik Erikson

#9. Tsars were autocrats, often tyrannical, who held total control over everything and everyone in Russia,

Roy A. Adkins

#10. One senses that all the Bolsheviks, even those who ended up as cold-blooded autocrats, had been on a journey from idealism to something else, and didn't notice - to mix periods - when the Rubicon was crossed.

Tom Stoppard

#11. What has destroyed liberty and the rights of man in every government which has ever existed under the sun? The generalizing and concentrating all cares and power into one body, no matter whether of the autocrats of Russia or France, or of the aristocrats of a Venetian senate.

Thomas Jefferson

#12. A man with a victim mentality attracts autocrats into his life who will decide how he should live

Sunday Adelaja

#13. Bugs lurk in corners and congregate at boundaries.

Boris Beizer

#14. Being in the Spice Girls was an insane experience.

Melanie Chisholm

#15. I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It's one of the most enjoyable parts of my job.

Sara Sheridan

#16. I wanted to win the Tour de France. And when I won it once, I wanted to do it again, and again, and again, it just kept going. So there wasn't another competitive environment.

Lance Armstrong

#17. The past is devoid of meaning like the present, and a refuge for cowards.

E. M. Forster

#18. Fiction is open to whoever comes in the door, as long as you come in energetically.

George Saunders

#19. Berry Gordy believed in owning the artist for life and controlling everything: the money, the station wagons, everything.

Wilson Pickett

#20. No matter what you got, the blues is there

John Lee Hooker

#21. I hope you have a miscarriage on a Walmart floor and have the baby's room already decorated.

Jim Norton

#22. 95. But please don't write again to tell me how you have woken up weeping. I already know how you are in love with your weeping.

Maggie Nelson

#23. Ego is impurity. Be selfless. Consecrate and dedicate your life to perfection.

Frederick Lenz

#24. Every town has its stories. Stories that have been told so many times by so many different people they've worked themselves into the collective consciousness as truth.

Jessi Kirby

#25. Babe Ruth was not afraid to strike out. And it was this fearlessness that contributed to his remarkable career.

Simon Sinek

#26. The world is not going to survive very much longer as humanity's captive.

Daniel Quinn

#27. If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift.

Homer