Dictatorship Quotes

In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to exhibit an harmonious design or an inspirational tone.

The rifle and handgun are 'equalizers' -- the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship.

For me democracy is the only way of life. The opposite is dictatorship or anarchy.

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

Dictatorship is always merely an aria, never an opera.

In Armenia, the power de facto belongs to those who opted to take violent action in Karabakh. We are dealing with a military dictatorship that utilizes some kind of democratic procedures.

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

Fundamentalism is dictatorship of the mind

In fact I didn't think about fear much at the time. I felt angry about everything that was happening around me: the violence of the dictatorship and the violence of society.

I draw a contrast between American shared governance with "the dictatorship of ministries" wherein policy and direction for the university is ordered by bureaucrats who have never taught a class.

I think that our society will not allow anyone to establish a dictatorship again in the future. [Mikhail] Saakashvili will fail.

"Our government will soon become what it is already a long way toward becoming, an elective dictatorship.

Rather than a democracy, we increasingly have an elective dictatorship. People are merely permitted to choose who will violate the laws and the Constitution.

High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship - nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a divine-right monarchy. And when the queen goes on vacation, things change.

Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.

I came to grotesque language in the patriarchal culture under the dictatorship. The body that was broken into pieces is a sick body. I put the disease of this world and my sick body together.

Socialism is a society where the resources are used democratically to provide a better life for all, based on ending the dictatorship of big business over the economy and politics.

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

Ours is a people's democratic dictatorship, led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance.

There are things that I love in Iranian cinema and things that I don't. In Iranian cinema, you have to use metaphor because you are living under a dictatorship.

That's the job of a free press is to hold the lamp up, to investigate, to hold accountable. And denying access, as Sean Spicer did , is the first step toward a dictatorship.

The director's in charge of every single decision [in film]. It's a dictatorship.It's a benevolent dictatorship, but it's true. It's every single shot. There's nothing arbitrary.

I'm from Spain, and in Spain, things in the '80s after the dictatorship, it was like a big explosion of freedom.

There is only one power and one dictatorship whose organisation is salutary and feasible: it is that collective, invisible dictatorship of those who are allied in the name of our principle.

I worry about a democracy having nuclear weapons as much as a dictatorship having nuclear weapons.

Centralized health dictatorship.

Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, interpreted relations with Israel. Very antagonistic.

I happen to agree with the anti-dictatorship policies, but I don't think it's the role of General Electric to support them or oppose them. They do of course, but I don't agree with that.

I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom.

I've heard people in the Middle East tell me that the most inspiring thing for them as people struggling against dictatorship in the Middle East is the memory of the civil rights movement.

The dictatorship needs to be entirely dismantled. All the rest of the old guard must go.

When we went in the late 1990s, Nigeria was still in a dictatorship. So we didn't go with a mission. It started really with a sort of blankness and open-endedness.

If you don't know the difference between dictatorship and leadership then you got to go back to a fifth grade civics class.

If someone is calling for democracy, he is calling for an end of a dictatorship and if this is the will of the people, this could also mean overthrowing the regime.

Death is the solution to all problems. No man-no problem.

I hardly think that any Socialist, nowadays, would seriously propose that an inspector should call every morning at each house to see that each citizen rose up and did manual labour for eight hours.

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

The lesson we are indebted to Egypt for, our future generations learned that in the face of oppression silence is never golden.

Power is not a means

In a democracy, there will be more complaints but less crisis, in a dictatorship more silence but much more suffering.

A man might share his wealth, but never his authority.

The one who love power becomes dictator and one who admires power becomes slave.

Democracy doesn't mean spreading terror.

Law without reason is criminal.

History shows us that people often make mistakes, they give wrong decisions, they vote for the wrong persons! And history also shows us that in the end they pay a heavy price for it!

An act of a dictatorship is an act of a civil war - Freedom to the people.

Fascism thrives in obscurity and darkness.

I think this business of good vs. evil is of no interest to the power hungry

If you are my food, how am I supposed to feel pity towards you? That would mean starvation for me. “A hungry leopard told a fallen, panting, imploring gazelle

The universe runs on the principle that one who can exert the most evil on other creatures runs the show.