78 Quotes by Ameen Rihani

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

Not in our make-up, to be sure - not in the pose which is preceded by the tantaras of a trumpet - do the essential traits in our character first reveal themselves. But truly in the little things the real self is exteriorised.

Society may be likened to a rod, which only a just government can balance properly.

In a true democracy is the cure for most of our social and political ills, but a few of them must remain to keep us going.

All things, good and evil, come out, it seems, of the East. The Illuminati, like the Ismailites, dealt in allegories; and like the Mazdakites, they played with fire.

Bolshevism is the other end of Czarism.