#autocracy

The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. ↗

— Otto Hermann Kahn

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In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

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I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

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The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

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