Quotes About Dictatorship

It was one of the greatest errors in evaluating dictatorship to say that the dictator forces himself on society against its own will. In reality, every dictator in history was nothing but the accentuation of already existing state ideas which he had only to exaggerate in order to gain power

Power, no matter what kind of power it is, without a foundation in truth, is a dictatorship, more or less and in one way or another, for it is always based on man's fear of the social responsibility and personal burden that "freedom" entails.

Open confession of dictatorship is far less dangerous than sham democracy. One can defend oneself against the former; the latter is like a creeper attached to the body of a drowning man.

Without the power to put them into practice, truths are of no use. They remain academic. Power, no matter what kind of power it is, without a foundation in truth, is a dictatorship, more or less and in one way or another, for it is always based on man's fear of the social responsibility and personal burden that "freedom" entails. Dictatorial power and truth do not go together. They are mutually exclusive.

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

Führer, a lie is the truth, only backward.

Chaque décennie a son vocabulaire. La fréquence de certains mots dans les médias nous renseigne sur l'état des choses. Les deux favoris ont été pendant longtemps: dictature et corruption. Pour la première fois on entend reconstruction. Un mot vraiment nouveau. Et cela même si beaucoup de gens n'y croient pas trop.

Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States.

I don't know if you are much of a student of history, Mr. Prichard, but the most terrible tyrants have always been those who thought they were leading their people into some kind of paradise.

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

Clinton exploited and expanded the dictatorial potential of the U.S. presidency.

The ballot box is simply a means to determine how state violence is to be used against the losers of the election and how those losers will then be exploited economically and in other ways by the majority. Thus, the incentive for minority groups to attempt to secede or seize control of the state to avoid such domination and exploitation exists in democracies and dictatorships.

Socialism was made to order for tyrants.

tyrants always set about shaping history after their liking.

Para una dictadura moderna, toda organización que sea independiente ya es política.

These three conceptual and ideological challenges (Hindu fundamentalism, Communist dictatorship and ethnic separatism) all date to the founding of the nation. To these have, more recently been added, three more mundane and materialist challenges. These are inequality, corruption and environmental degradation.

For a writer, personal freedom is not so important. It is not individual freedom that guarantees the greatness of literature; otherwise, writers in democratic countries would be superior to all others. Some of the greatest writers wrote under dictatorship - Shakespeare, Cervantes.

To us, anyone who opposes dictatorship is our friend. Those who support it, our enemy.

In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States.

Show me one dictatorship in the world that has not been supported by the United States government or some European governments. It almost doesn't exist. I think a dictatorship and hegemony are part of the same phenomenon.

In Pakistan, there have been two real powers - one is Bhuttoism, and one is the worshipers of dictatorship. I call them the supporters of the establishment.

Mi infancia y mi adolescencia habían transcurrido bajo la dictadura de Batista y el resto de mi vida bajo la aún más férrea dictadura de Fidel Castro; jamás había sido un verdadero ser humano en todo el sentido de la palabra

By giving up or sharing control of small, nettlesome issues like dress codes, and of graver matters like factory closings and security, management creates a culture of self-government that has more resilience than any my-way-or-the-highway dictatorship.

The bombing started up again, with explosions all around us, in broad daylight, but no one in the restaurant even flinched. Iraqis seemed numb after a quarter century under Saddam's whip-hand rule. It was heartbreaking to see what a harsh dictatorship can do to the human soul. In less than a week, I had grown almost inured to explosions and fires.