Dictatorship Quotes

Dictatorship Quote of the day

Whoever can conquer the street will one day conquer the state, for every form of power politics and any dictatorship-run state has its roots in the street.

The first thing dictators do is finish free press, to establish censorship. There is no doubt that a free press is the first enemy of dictatorship.

Every State is a dictatorship.

In a dictatorship there is no choice, the elections are controlled, the police are the military, fear equals control, speech is suppressed, the economy is looted, the people are slaves.

We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you're half-way to a dictatorship.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.

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

The Christian stands, not under the dictatorship of a legalistic 'you ought,' but in the magnetic field of Christian Freedom, under the empowering of the 'You may.'

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.

One of the achievements of which I am most proud was the codification, the writing into U.S. law, of the U.S. embargo on the Castro dictatorship.

Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.

Dictatorships don't always die when the dictator leaves office.

A small craft in an ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship.

I grew up in a dictatorship, where you couldn't talk about difficult situations - there was this culture of silence. We would run into a problem and have no one to talk to.

The Original Sin which brought us to the brink of bankruptcy and dictatorship was the Federal Income Tax Amendment and its illegitimate child, Federal Aid.

The dictator can be removed in a day, but it can take years to stamp out the lingering remnants of his dictatorship

The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat.

It will be difficult, even painful, but democracy will prevail in Russia. There will be no dictatorship, although relapses into authoritarianism are possible.

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.

Neither the chains of dictatorship nor the fetters of oppression can keep down the forces of freedom for long.

Through the ballot, we can defend our democracy from the threat of dictatorship.

Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.

A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.

But Cuba doesn't have a dictatorship - it's a revolutionary democracy.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement.

A photograph permits a first viewing, and then an individual reflection. It solicits participation, and encourages individuality in interpretation. Television is an autarchy, a dictatorship.

Popular revolt against a ruthless, experienced modern dictatorship, which enjoys a monopoly over weapons and communications, ... is simply not a possibility in the modern age.

Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree - very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.

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

It can't happen here is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.

You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else's narrative.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution is a duty!

Revolution is indeed a violent process. But if it is to result only in a change of dictatorship, in a shifting of names and political personalities, then it is hardly worth while.

England is no longer controlled by Britons, we are under the invisible Jewish dictatorship, a dictatorship that can be felt in every sphere of life

A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.

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

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy; the best weapon of a democracy is openness.