Quotes About Dictatorship

The murderous, self-elected, megalomaniacal head of state with the morals of a fruit fly is an obscene feature of African life that is not likely to disappear.

The senator had only one argument in his favour: his feeling. When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm of kitsch, the dictatorship of the heart reigns supreme.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: La dictadura, devoción fetichista por un hombre, es una cosa efímera, un estado de la sociedad en el que no puede expresarse los propios pensamientos, en el que los hijos denuncian a sus padres a la policía; un estado semejante no puede durar mucho tiempo (Sir Winston Churchill)

I pledge a return to the glory days of old-fashioned absolute dictatorship: Politics and pop culture are going to merge back into one big ugly Frankenstein baby. American

Hitler wouldn't have needed to find someone else. Someone else would have found him. When absolute power is on offer, talent fights to get in.

No cities can grow in a dictatorship, because everything stays small when it's being watched.

He had seen the banning of books, music and films, the closure of theaters and cinemas, the outlawing of football, and all the other countless ways in which the Libyan dictatorship, like a crazed jealous lover, infiltrated every aspect of public and private life.

I want it to serve as a reminder of the terrible human consequences of Mao's dictatorship and of how good and talented people living under his regime were forced to violate their consciences and sacrifice their ideals in order to survive.

President Bush has shown great leadership. He has said that the 21st century will not be ruled or dictated by terrorists, dictators, and murderers. He is absolutely right. God bless him for his resolve.

My husband is not American. He was born in Brazil, where he grew up under a filthy, corrupt dictatorship. In his twenties, he moved to Europe, where he lived for a while under various socialist democracies. He spent a few years on a kibbutz in Israel, living out a utopian experiment in communal existence.

Sir Alan Redmayne believed in the rule of law. It was, after all, the basis of any democracy. Whenever asked, Sir Alan agreed with Churchill that, as a form of government, democracy had its disadvantages, but, on balance, it remained the best on offer. But given a free hand, he would have opted for a benevolent dictatorship. The problem was that dictators, by their very nature, were not benevolent. It simply didn't fit their job description.

Swiftly, inexplicably, willingly, the people of Germany had voted themselves out of a democratic republic and into a dictatorship.

Saddam Hussein admired, studied, and copied Stalin, the paragon of modern dictators.

So-obviously-I am not against political parties; if I were, I would be against democracy itself. I am simply against the dictatorship of partisanship. To be more precise, I am against the excessive influence of parties in the system of political power. Where the political system-and thus the state itself-is too dominated by parties, or too dependent on them, the consequences are unfortunate.

Since the fall of the Soviet regime, it has been revealed that six hundred bishops, forty thousand priests, and one hundred twenty thousand monks and nuns were killed during this period. Many of these died in the harsh conditions of prison or labor camp; others were shot or buried alive. By the end of Stalin's dictatorship, only some two hundred priests remained active in the Soviet Union. The scale of this martyrdom is unprecedented in the history of the Christian Church.

The so-called dictatorship of the proletariat is really the dictatorship over the proletariat by the party and even by individual persons.

Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.

Reich chancellor!

Finding themselves denied access to their own building by the well-armed marshalls with their sandbag fortifications and machine guns, they realized that the feds intended to support Dick Wilson no matter what offenses he had committed, so long as he waged war on AIM; clearly, this Wilson was no different from other petty dictators around the world, propped up by weapons sent from the U.S. under the panoply of anti-Communism so long as they protected corporate interests.

Maybe Goring will be the new Fuhrer when that Bormann dies. He seems sort of different from the others. The only way that Bormann got it in the first place was to weasel in when Hitler realized how fast he was going.

a massive and intimidating publicity campaign launched after some successful Nazi fait accompli, followed by a (genuinely secret) ballot to confirm the Führer's actions. It was a logical extension of Hitler's method of dictatorship by consent.

When the goddess Reason was set up as the idol of a sanguinary dictatorship and the French 'Enlightenment' was carried over the continent by military force, the charms of both faded quickly.

La dictature c'est "Ferme ta gueule !", la démocratie c'est "Cause toujours !

They came out in the millions to show their dogged support for the woman the dictatorship claimed it had defeated in the election.