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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

Power Ideas Errors May

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.

Work Freedom Dictatorship Want

Which, autocracy or democracy, is really better suited to modern China? If we base our judgment upon the intelligence and the ability of the Chinese people, we come to the conclusion that the sovereignty of the people would be far more suitable for us.

Democracy People Intelligence Better

The Chinese, as befits a Communist autocracy, approached the task of dominating the Olympics with top-down military discipline.

Discipline Military Communist Task

Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy.

Evil Oppression More Torture

It was always presumptuous to expect Russia, an ancient nation-state and proud empire of distinct culture with a tradition of autocracy, to become an Anglo-American democracy overnight - just as it is naive to expect it in other parts of the world.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Democracy Culture Tradition World

The memoirs of the Grand Duchess Olga are an entertaining record for anyone interested in the imperial family's home life during the last years of Russian autocracy.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Life Family Home Last

Alexander II really used autocracy well to negotiate the freeing of the serfs in 1861.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Well Used Really Negotiate

'The Secret Agent' remains the most brilliant novelistic study of terrorism as viewed from the blood-spattered outside. But 'Under Western Eyes' dares to leap inside - not only into the terrorist mind, but also into the troubled zone that divides West from East, 'the autocracy in mystic vestments.'

Eyes Mind Terrorism Inside

Autocracy is a government of the few from above; Bolshevism is a government of the few from below.

Government Above Few Below

The Republicans want an autocracy where the rights of minorities and others are not protected.

Want Others Rights Where

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

Democracy Place Nation Taken

Sometimes, when democracy has to fight with autocracy, what can be done? We have to fight; somebody has to.

Mamata Banerjee

Democracy Fight Sometimes Done

There is no better way to manage than by walking around. Autocracy doesn't work. Talk to people in their offices, find out what's on their minds.

Maurice Flanagan

Work People Walking Better

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

Otto Hermann Kahn

Democracy Liberty Foe Deadliest

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