quotes about Dictatorship
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It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
-- A. N. WilsonSource : "Once upon a life" by A. N. Wilson, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2011.
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I sing against emotional dictatorships, and against the imposition of one person over another, in the name of love.
-- Concha Buika -
There are examples of fraternal dictatorships, or one, anyway: the passing of power from Fidel to Raul Castro.
-- Elliott Abrams -
Under dictatorship, the people in prison are always superior to the people who put them there.
-- Evan Esar -
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In a democracy, you believe it or not; in a dictatorship, you believe it or else.
-- Evan Esar -
We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.
-- Fatos Nano -
The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship.
-- Frederick Forsyth -
Contrary to popular opinion, even totalitarian dictatorships are dependent on the population and the societies they rule.
-- Gene SharpSource : Gene Sharp (2010). “From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation”, p.18, Albert Einstein Institution
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Generally, dictatorships do not work in marriage - or, for that matter, in any other relationship.
-- Gloria Allred -
Fundamentalism is dictatorship of the mind
-- Hanif Kureishi -
There is, of course, nothing wrong in a program that aims to please everybody, except that as a rule it is a prelude to dictatorship.
-- J. Christopher HeroldSource : J. Christopher Herold (2002). “The Age of Napoleon”, p.432, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Through the ballot, we can defend our democracy from the threat of dictatorship,
-- Joseph Estrada -
Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that.
-- Karl Marx -
Unfortunately, writing and reporting the truth is not allowed under Castro's tyrannical dictatorship
-- Lincoln Diaz-Balart -
Nobody ever recommended a dictatorship aiming at ends other than those he himself approved. He who advocates dictatorship always advocates the unrestricted rule of his own will
-- Ludwig von Mises -
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Every budding dictatorship begins by muzzling the artists, because they're a mouthy lot and they don't line up and salute very easily.
-- Margaret Atwood -
Dictatorships don't always die when the dictator leaves office
-- Mohamed NasheedSource : "The Dregs of Dictatorship". www.nytimes.com. February 8, 2012.
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I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.
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Democracy is alive, and like any other living thing it either flourishes and grows or withers and dies. There is no in-between. It is freedom and life or dictatorship and death.
-- Saul Alinsky -
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It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of 'Me', which is basically a tyranny of others.
-- Stefan Molyneux -
What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners.
-- Ted Lindsay -
We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships.
-- Tom TancredoSource : Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 26, 2012.
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It serves notice that President Bush is serious about promoting freedom, because free societies are a lot more peaceable than dictatorships and monarchies.
-- Tony Snow -
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
-- Will DurantSource : Will Durant (2014). “The Complete Story of Civilization: Our Oriental Heritage, Life of Greece, Caesar and Christ, Age of Faith, Renaissance, Age of Reason Begins, Age of Louis XIV, Age of Voltaire, Rousseau and Revolution, Age of Napoleon, Reformation”, p.1983, Simon and Schuster
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When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.
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Democracy was assassinated here when Patrice Lumumba was assassinated. And who brought democracy back to this country? We are the ones who did that after pushing out the dictatorship in 1997.
-- Joseph KabilaSource : Source: www.spiegel.de
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A totalitarian dictatorship cannot explain; it can only suppress.
-- Robert Payne -
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Famine and unemployment are the raw material for dictatorships.
-- Alexis TsiprasSource : Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of Greece in Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 15, 2016.
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If dictatorship is the concentration of power, freedom consists in its diffusion.
-- Lord Hailsham