Autocratic Government Quotes

Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.

There is no reason for Egypt to be under martial law.

The Chinese state is constructed in an entirely different way from western states. Unlike European states, for over a millennium the Chinese state has not been obliged to compete for power with rivals such as the church, the aristocracy or merchants.

While the 2011 revolution did not remove the regime, it has shortened the seemingly endless patience that many Egyptians once had for military rule.

You cannot chose your parents. You cannot choose your gender. And in Russia, you cannot choose your president.

Monarchy is only the string that ties the robber's bundle.

How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheeses?

“Theocracy” has always been the synonym for a bleak and narrow, if not a fierce and blood-stained, tyranny.

The accession to power in Pyongyang of Kim Jong Un, son of Kim Jong Il and grandson of Kim Il Sung, is a unique achievement in world politics.

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.

Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability.

Being ruled by a depraved poet-king who is sacrified each spring is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Dictatorship, by whatever name, is founded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the only one that counts; and that men and women and children were put on earth solely for the purpose of serving the state.

Kings are not the only tyrants. The conduct of the long Parliament will justify in adding that the Kings are not the severest tyrants.

A Turkey under a dictatorial regime, providing haven to violent radicals and pushing its Kurdish citizens into desperation, would be a nightmare for Middle East security.

A republican government in a hundred points is weaker than an autocratic government; but in this one point it is the strongest that ever existed — it has educated a race of men that are men.

When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.

Draco wrote his laws in blood; the Senate writes its laws in wind.

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.

I'm telling you, you can't compare Saudi Arabia to other countries.