Zitat des Tages über Autokratie / Autocracy:
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.
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.
In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.
The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.
The Chinese, as befits a Communist autocracy, approached the task of dominating the Olympics with top-down military discipline.