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Tag Name "Dictatorship" (226)

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Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are.
Gene Sharp
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Dictatorships don't always die when the dictator leaves office.
Mohamed Nasheed
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Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.
Ai Weiwei
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Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.
Ismail Kadaré
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Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by the use of violence by the proletariat against the bourgeoisie, rule that is unrestricted by any laws.
Vladimir Lenin
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Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and must live as you are told by other people who desire and think for you
Stephen Vizinczey
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Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
Plato
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Dictatorships by their nature are unrepresentative as they neglect the social needs of the people.
Benazir Bhutto
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Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.
Alberto Moravia
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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
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Under dictatorship, the people in prison are always superior to the people who put them there.
Evan Esar
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Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.
Jalal Talabani
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True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another... It is a most extraordinary thing that although most of us are opposed to political tyranny and dictatorship, we inwardly accept the authority, the tyranny, of another to twist our minds and our way of life.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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I tell the American people solemnly that the United States will never survive as a happy and fertile oasis of liberty surrounded by a cruel desert of dictatorship.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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There are no young people who know how to debate, who know how to vote, and who know how to persuade people to vote. And you have seen this in Paraguay and they are reaping the harvest now of fifty years of dictatorship.
John Gimlette
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I would like to travel to my country again, to a country without a dictatorship, to a post-Putin Russia.
Garry Kasparov
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Fascism is not the result of dictatorship.
John T. Flynn
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Through the ballot, we can defend our democracy from the threat of dictatorship.
Joseph Estrada
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Contrary to popular opinion, even totalitarian dictatorships are dependent on the population and the societies they rule.
Gene Sharp
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After the Dutch left Indonesia, after the Indonesians got loose in 1945, the freemen were not as widely used, but then they went through a real Renaissance where military dictatorship took over.
Joshua Oppenheimer
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That's the issue that I've been exploring: How did the Republic turn into the Empire? That's paralleled with: How did Anakin turn into Darth Vader? How does a good person go bad, and how does a democracy become a dictatorship? It isn't that the Empire conquered the Republic, it's that the Empire is the Republic.
George Lucas
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Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.
Junot Diaz
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If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarization and the barbarism of dictatorships - that made me feel that we had to change this country.
George Papandreou
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