Dictatorship Quotes

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

The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here.

The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.

I shall be honored to go to jail. Under a dictatorship, the detention cell is a place of honor.

Any comparison between the military dictatorship and democracy can only come from those who do not value the Brazilian democracy.

Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.

Liberty isn't a thing you are given as a present. You can be a free man under a dictatorship. It is sufficient if you struggle against it.

When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.

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

It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.

We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships.

Generalization is flawed thinking only when applied to individuals. It is the most accurate way to describe the mass, the Wad. And yours is a democracy, a dictatorship of the Wad.

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

In many ways, the media today makes dictatorship impossible. But it also makes democracy intolerable.

I think that sexual oppression and dictatorship go hand in hand.

Fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.

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

The key of the success of Studio 54 is that it’s a dictatorship at the door and a democracy on the dance floor.

In both life and work, stay flexible. Whether in a country, a company, or a family, the same holds true: Dictatorship and rigidity rarely work. Freedom and elasticity do.

The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.

If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all.

Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful enemies of dictatorship and at the same time the basic conditions of effective democracy.

No form of government can survive that excludes dictatorship when the life of the nation is at stake.

The dictatorship of the proletariat and the leadership of the Marxist-Leninist party are indispensable conditions for the triumph of the Socialist revolution and the building of Socialism.

Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

Today, the media dictatorship is becoming a substitute to military dictatorship. The big economic groups are using the media and decide who can speak, who the good guy is and who the bad guy is.

The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God's representative on earth.

My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established, since the masses are backing me.

In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.

Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it.

You're a big boy, you ought to understand that punctual transport, public order and safe streets, polite people and good medical services are all the achievements of dictatorship.

People, if given the choice between anarchy and dictatorship, will always choose dictatorship because anarchy is the worst dictatorship of all.

I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguays dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued writing about them from my various places of exile.

I seek to lead a democratic Pakistan which is free from the yoke of military dictatorship and that will cease to be a haven, the very petri dish of international terrorism.

Fascism is not the result of dictatorship.

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

They have been talking about a dictatorship and they were right because there's a dictatorship and there's a government that has been fighting that dictatorship, the dictatorship of the media.

The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship.

The senator had only one argument in his favour: his feeling. When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm of kitsch, the dictatorship of the heart reigns supreme.

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

Some foreign states will act against a dictatorship only to gain their own economic, political, or military control over the country.

There is no such thing as a naval dictatorship.

The essence of modern dictatorship is the combination of one-dimensional, flat thinking with power and terror.

I grew up in a dictatorship, so I really appreciate democracy. I think democracy isn't just a random thing that's around - a democratic society needs the involvement of everybody.

Every budding dictatorship begins by muzzling the artists, because they're a mouthy lot and they don't line up and salute very easily.

There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have betrayed us.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's dictatorial ways have hurt Iran's image across the globe and could be a prelude to dictatorship.

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