autocracy

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

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

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

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

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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

Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy. Bernard Crick

The current regime is, by any measure, the standard-bearer and global poster child for militancy, brute autocracy and corruption. If they are in fact students of my father, his ultimate act of refusing suppressive bloodshed in favor of exile should be their test. Reza Pahlavi

No autocracy can lead people to believe that they are living in harmony and happiness. Ai Weiwei

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

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

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