Quotes About Dictatorship

She had the satisfaction, so beloved of dictators, of a permanent state of emergency.

Oh, Rachel, Rachel, Leah said. Let me give you a teeny little lesson in political science. Democracy and dictatorship are political systems; they have to do with who participates in the leadership. Socialism and capitalism are economic systems. It has to do with who owns the wealth of the nations, and who gets to eat. Can you grasp that?

A hurt body and mind aren't just like a dictatorship; they are a dictatorship. There is no tyrant as merciless as pain, no despot so cruel as confusion. That my mind had been as badly hurt as my body was a thing I only came to realize once I was alone and all other voices dropped away.

Each of these four coups was launched against a government that was reasonably democratic (with the arguable exception of South Vietnam), and each ultimately led to the installation of a repressive dictatorship.

His stance was denounced as un-Marxist—indeed, as Blanquist, after the Frenchman Louis Auguste Blanqui (1805–81), who had dismissed the efficacy of popular movements in favor of revolution by a small group via a temporary dictatorship using force.

Communism's entire existence depended on coercion.

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

Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.

Komünizm kölele?tirilmi? s?n?f?, zengin zâlimleri, Lenin gibi yurt d???nda esirlerin aras?nda ya?ad?ktan sonra, köle edilenlere vadedilen topraklar?n (ütopya, proletarya diktatörlü?ü)

En momentos así, de sosiego y reflexión, se sorprendía de la calma y serenidad de la gente, que aceptaba lo que ya era evidente: la instauración de la dictadura. Diez años eran diez años. Poco o mucho, según la perspectiva. Poco para olvidar. Mucho para pensar en la lucha. Ninguna resistencia es eterna. Las

Como no se los consideraba aptos para la democracia, pensaban que era mejor que estuvieran sujetos a un poder dictatorial.

In realtà nessuno potrebbe istituire la dittatura rivoluzionaria se prima il popolo non avesse fatta la rivoluzione, mostrando così a fatti la sua capacità di farla; ed allora la dittatura non farebbe che sovrapporsi alla rivoluzione, sviarla, soffocarla ed ucciderla.

Money is a powerful means of exploitation and oppression; but it is also the only means (apart from the most tyrannical dictatorship or the most idyllic accord) so far devised by human intelligence to regulate production and distribution automatically. For the moment, rather than concerning oneself with the abolition of money one should seek a way to ensure that money truly represents the useful work performed by its possessors. . . .

We can decide to live in response to the abundance of God and not under the dictatorship of our own poor needs.

It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.

Remember that a civilized nation cannot just have one party; if there were only one party, this would merely be a dictatorship. Politics could not advance.

If you look at satellite photographs of the Far East by night, you'll see a large splotch curiously lacking in light. This area of darkness is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

As brutal as Saddam Hussein was, it was a mistake to just eliminate him. The same is true for Moammar Gadhafi and for Libya, which is now a failed state.

I think the world is much better off without Saddam Hussein than with him.

Democracies cannot dispense with hypocrisy any more than dictatorships can with cynicism.

Well, there are a number of lessons to this war. One of the lessons of the war is that when you go into a country that is under a dictatorship, no matter what the underlying makeup of the country is, that it takes an awful long time to be able to help re-establish a circumstance where there's a possibility of a democratic country emerging. And so that's one of the lessons I think everyone has learned.

We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?

'The End of America' details the 10 steps that would-be dictators always take in seeking to close an open society; it argued that the Bush administration had been advancing each one.

Bashar al-Assad's henchmen stomped on the hands of famed Syrian cartoonist Ali Farzat. Our dictators tailor wounds to suit their victims' occupations.