Quotes About Dictatorship

What amazes me is how many people are happy for Saddam to stay. They ask why we don't get rid of Mugabe, why not the Burmese lot. Yes, let's get rid of them all. I don't because I can't, but when you can you should.

and called for Augustus to be appointed dictator.

in February of 44 B.C. he had himself declared dictator for life.

One of the reasons why Gadafy's dictatorship has managed to remain in power for so long is not just because it has shown itself to be able to exact a great deal of violence, both psychological and physical, on its people, but because it has been very successful at imposing a narrative, a story.

Nigerian politics has been, since the military dictatorships, largely non-ideological. Rather than a battle of ideas, it is about who can pump in the most money and buy the most access.

You can't imagine a free market coupled with a dictatorship.

In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.

I grew up under a dictatorship. I knew what it meant for people to not have the ability to freely express themselves.

Gaddafi's ability to have survived so long rests on his convenient position in not being committed to a single ideology and his use of violence in such a theatrical way.

It's no accident that every dictatorship always tries to break down the family, because it's in the family that you get the strength to be able to fight,

The dictatorship of thought and word under construction by progressives is a regime based on lies and propaganda. Most conservatives, Christian and not, recognize that to some degree, but too few see the deeper ramifications of accepting these lies. "Political correctness" is an annoyance; these lies corrupt one's ability to think clearly about reality.

It's no accident that every dictatorship always tries to break down the family, because it's in the family that you get the strength to be able to fight," says Maria Komaromi...

lado amargo, incómodo e irónico: la independencia acaba degradada por un ridículo emperador, la reforma liberal desemboca en la dictadura y la revolución acaba en manos de burócratas autoritarios. Me temo que la transición a la democracia acabe naufragando gracias a un demagogo populista

Though all dictators endorse the same principle of government aggression to suppress people's liberty, some dictators are harder to detect than others. A slick neocon can seem virtuous compared to a Hitler, yet still endorse invasion and the slaughter of innocent people.

It [the proletariat] should and must at once undertake socialist measures in the most energetic, unyielding and unhesitant fashion, in other words, exercise a dictatorship, but a dictatorship of the class, not of a party or of a clique – dictatorship of the class, that means in the broadest possible form on the basis of the most active, unlimited participation of the mass of the people, of unlimited democracy.

The dictatorship did not elate me, nor did exile depress me.

Freedom is a terrible gift, and the theory behind all dictatorships is that the people do no want freedom.

The first people a dictator puts in jail are the writers, the teachers, the librarians - because these people are dangerous. They have enough vocabulary to recognize injustice and to speak out loudly about it. Let us have the courage to go on being dangerous people.

Tyrants don't become a success.They become obsessed!

Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one.

Again in Russia, we find a tiny group of zealots—calling themselves "the majority" (Bolsheviks)—who planned to control everything from a central authority. Lenin wrote most of the "scientific" program for a dictatorship of the proletariat in Russia, which was then debated and modified by other communist leaders. Socialism had to be imposed from above, by educated elites. There would be no from-the-bottom-up modifications.

France's Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen led to bestial savagery, followed by Napoleon's dictatorship, followed by another monarchy, and then finally something resembling an actual republic eighty years later. In

A weak figure or subject can neither stand independently nor execute its will precisely; thus, it fails to actuate its notion. Consequently, it is worse than a strong dictatorship that empowers and enforces its objectives significantly since not every dictator can be dishonest in every dimension. Indeed, as such insight and concept, an honest dictatorship is better as a comparison between a weak and corrupt democracy in those societies where people stay self-idiot.

an honest dictatorship is better as a comparison between a weak and corrupt democracy.