Quotes About Dictatorship

Soviet leaders had to treat the outside world as hostile because this provided the only excuse "for the dictatorship without which they did not know how to rule, for cruelties they did not dare not to inflict, for sacrifices they felt bound to demand.

the so-called free world was a dictatorship that used media and conformist conditioning to enforce its dominion.

Pienso que todo ser humano tiene una infinita y callada capacidad para ejercer la violencia, quiéralo o no. Las máscaras ayudan, cubren, tapan, disimulan, pero no la eliminan. Lo que hacen las guerras y las dictaduras es levantar esas máscaras y poner tal virtualidad de manifiesto, permitiendo que aflore en un esplendor desatado; la impunidad lo permite.

Nazism (national Socialism) and communism (international socialism) were but two sides of the same coin.

Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy; the best weapon of a democracy is openness.

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.

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

The conjunction of ruling and dreaming generates tyranny.

If dictatorship is the concentration of power, freedom consists in its diffusion.

Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

Los tiranos y los déspotas suelen tener la costumbre de torturar, invadir y asesinar. Hay

In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves!

Asked what kind of government Germany should work toward, Pius answered, according to Leiber's notes: "Any government without Hitler.

Gandhi noted also that violent revolutions almost always end in repressive dictatorships. Once the rebel troops gain control, they naturally keep acting as they're used to—in other words, they start running the country like a military camp.

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.

Tak jak powtarzaj?cy si? g?ód w Korei Pó?nocnej powinien by? klasycznym przyk?adem tego, do czego zdolna jest dyktatura, kiedy chodzi jej wy??cznie o utrzymanie si? przy w?adzy, tak g?ód w Nigrze w 2005 roku móg?by pokazywa?, do czego zdolny jest rynek, kiedy nic nie kr?puje jego dzia?a?.

For us a noncommunist left is this double position, posing social problems in terms of struggle and refusing the dictatorship of the proletariat.

Once the philosophical foundation of democracy has collapsed, the statement that dictatorship is bad is rationally valid only for those who are not its beneficiaries, and there is no theoretical obstacle to the transformation of this statement into its opposite.

La Ilustración se relaciona con las cosas como el dictador con los hombres. Éste los concede en la medida en en que puede manipularlos.

He who believes in the words of a dictator is the king of the fools!

Tüm diktatörlerin gayet iyi kavrad??? üzere, gelece?i de?i?tirmek isteyen önce geçmi?i de?i?tirmek zorundad?r.