Quotes About Dictatorship

Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

We have this extraordinarily unbalanced constitution, in which we have an elected dictatorship of the prime minister.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

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

When there is oppression and dictatorship, by not speaking out, we lose our dignity.

For those of us in the opposition movement under dictatorships, part of our job is confronting police and spending time in prison. So, a dissident not only needs to learn how to oppose oppression but also how to face the crackdowns and time in prison.

Having spent the greater part of my life under a Communist dictatorship, I am very familiar with the Bolshevik mentality according to which an author in general, and an eminent author in particular, is always guilty, and must be punished accordingly.

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.

If you take men and lock them in a house for five years and tell them to come up with two children and they fail to do that, then we will chop off their heads.

Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time.

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 dictators and tyrants seek to destroy the freedoms of men, their first target is the legal profession and through it the rule of law.

Social, political, or legislative attempts to require that everybody agree with your personal truths are ultimately dictatorships.

When we overthrew Mubarak, we did this in 18 days. And because we were very naive and very unexperienced in revolutions, we thought that that was it. It is very difficult to imagine that you can actually get rid of a dictatorship that has been there for 60 years only in 18 days. So we were very naive.

The essential principle of totalitarianism is to make laws that are impossible to obey.

The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not.

The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.

The conventional word that is employed to describe tyranny is "systematic." The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not. (The only rule of thumb was: whatever is not compulsory is forbidden.) Thus, the ruled can always be found to be in the wrong.

I defend Salman Rushdie because it a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved. In the hate column: dictatorship, religion, stupidity, demagogy, censorship, bullying, and intimidation. In the love column: literature, irony, humor, the individual, and the defense of free expression

Elie Wiesel used to say that those who believed that all things are permitted were not those who believed that God was dead, but those who thought they were God (a shortcoming common to dictators great and small).

Ez ám a siker: általános választások útján hozni létre zsarnoki rendszert! Úgy hajtott végre önkényuralmi puccsot a nyomorult, hogy közben a birka népre hivatkozhatott! Láthatjuk, milyen jövÅ' vár a demokráciára.

the "two hundred families" which ruled France had made up their minds that their interests required the overthrow of the Third Republic, and the establishment of some sort of dictatorship which would break the power of the labor unions, as had been so efficiently done in Italy, Germany, Austria, and Spain.

Adolf Hitler facts had no meaning except as they served his purpose.

The Communists, who preached dictatorship, used the freedom of France to tear down that freedom: so said the capitalist press, and in order to protect freedom they proposed to destroy freedom and set up an anti-dictatorship dictatorship. Look at Daladier and his "governing by decree"!