Top 2 Quotes & Sayings by Konstantin Pobedonostsev

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Russian statesman Konstantin Pobedonostsev.
Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Konstantin Pobedonostsev

Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev was a Russian jurist, statesman, and adviser to three Tsars. He became the chief spokesman for reactionary positions and the éminence grise of imperial politics during the reign of Alexander III of Russia (1881–1894), holding, between 1880 and 1905, the position of Ober-Procurator of the Most Holy Synod, the non-clerical Russian official who supervised the Russian Orthodox Church.

Parliaments are the great lie of our time. — © Konstantin Pobedonostsev
Parliaments are the great lie of our time.
In a Democracy, the real rulers are the dexterous manipulators of votes, with their placemen, the mechanics who so skillfully operate the hidden springs which move the puppets in the arena of democratic elections. Men of this kind are ever ready with loud speeches lauding equality; in reality, they rule the people as any despot or military dictator might rule it.
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