Top Autocracy Quotes

Power is always personal: any study of a Western democratic leader today reveals that, even in a transparent system with its short periods in office, personalities shape administrations. Democratic le...

Who is fit to be elected?' asked Napoleon. 'A Caesar, an Alexander only comes along once a century, so that election must be a matter of chance.

Autocracy Definition

(n.) Independent or self-derived power; absolute or controlling authority; supremacy.

(n.) Supreme, uncontrolled, unlimited authority, or right of governing in a single person, as of an autocrat.

(n.) Political independence or absolute sovereignty (of a state); autonomy.

(n.) The action of the vital principle, or of the instinctive powers, toward the preservation of the individual; also, the vital principle.

Free people were not ruled. Freedom had first to be valued before its existence could be demanded.

In a democracy, there will be more complaints but less crisis, in a dictatorship more silence but much more suffering.