Dictatorship famous quotes

It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
-- A. N. Wilson

#Children #Remarkable #Dictatorship

I sing against emotional dictatorships, and against the imposition of one person over another, in the name of love.
-- Concha Buika

#Emotional #Names #Dictatorship

There are examples of fraternal dictatorships, or one, anyway: the passing of power from Fidel to Raul Castro.
-- Elliott Abrams

#Example #Passing #Dictatorship

Under dictatorship, the people in prison are always superior to the people who put them there.
-- Evan Esar

#People #Prison #Dictatorship

In a democracy, you believe it or not; in a dictatorship, you believe it or else.
-- Evan Esar

#Believe #Democracy #Dictatorship

We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.
-- Fatos Nano

#Gone #Anarchy #Dictatorship

The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship.
-- Frederick Forsyth

#Becoming #British #Dictatorship

Contrary to popular opinion, even totalitarian dictatorships are dependent on the population and the societies they rule.
-- Gene Sharp

#Population #Opinion #Dictatorship

Generally, dictatorships do not work in marriage - or, for that matter, in any other relationship.
-- Gloria Allred

#Marriage #Matter #Dictatorship

Fundamentalism is dictatorship of the mind
-- Hanif Kureishi

#Mind #Dictatorship

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 Herold

#Program #Prelude #Dictatorship

Fascism is not the result of dictatorship.
-- John T. Flynn

#Results #Fascism #Dictatorship

Through the ballot, we can defend our democracy from the threat of dictatorship,
-- Joseph Estrada

#Democracy #Threat #Dictatorship

Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that.
-- Karl Marx

#Political #Revolution #Dictatorship

Unfortunately, writing and reporting the truth is not allowed under Castro's tyrannical dictatorship
-- Lincoln Diaz-Balart

#Writing #Truth Is #Dictatorship

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

#Dictator #Ends #Dictatorship

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

#Artist #Lines #Dictatorship

Dictatorships don't always die when the dictator leaves office
-- Mohamed Nasheed

#Office #Dictator #Dictatorship

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.
-- Noam Chomsky

#Fascists #Dictatorship #Rational

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

#Democracy #Alive #Dictatorship

It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of 'Me', which is basically a tyranny of others.
-- Stefan Molyneux

#Tyranny #Dictatorship

What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners.
-- Ted Lindsay

#Team #Owners #Dictatorship

We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships.
-- Tom Tancredo

#Democracy #Dictatorship

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

#President #Serious #Dictatorship

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
-- Will Durant

#Liberty #Dictatorship

When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.
-- Will Durant

#Liberty #Chaos #Dictatorship

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 Kabila

#Country #Democracy #Dictatorship

A totalitarian dictatorship cannot explain; it can only suppress.
-- Robert Payne

#Dictatorship

Creation can always lead to dictatorship.
-- Wu Shanzhuan

#Creation #Dictatorship

Famine and unemployment are the raw material for dictatorships.
-- Alexis Tsipras

#Raw Materials #Unemployment #Dictatorship

If dictatorship is the concentration of power, freedom consists in its diffusion.
-- Lord Hailsham

#Political #Concentration #Dictatorship