Quotes About Dictatorship

The fact is that the Communists are the forerunners of fascism," she wrote in 1933. "Neither Mussolini nor Hitler have made a single original step. All they had to do is follow and copy faithfully the steps taken by Lenin and Stalin.

Arms control [that is, the Cold War treaties regulating U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals] did not end the Cold War. Rather, it was the collapse of communism and the emergence of democracy within the Soviet Union and then Russia that suspended the international rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union. If a new nationalist dictatorship eventually consolidates in Russia, we will go back to spending trillions on defense to deter a rogue state with thousands of nuclear weapons.

In the event, in Guatemala the US crushed democracy, not communism. Castillo Armas swiftly reversed the agrarian reform, reached agreement with United Fruit, and restored the old order of corrupt dictatorship.

Keep your head down, think small, look after yourself: these constituted the lessons of Leopold. The spirit, once comprehensively crushed, does not recover easily. For seventy-five years, from 1885 to 1960, Congo's population had marinated in humiliation. No malevolent witch-doctor could have devised a better preparation for the coming of a second Great Dictator.

When a new dictator takes over a country, one of the first things he does is seize or close the newspapers. Apathy isn't as heavy-handed as a dictator. But it can get the same job done.

Monopolios, sistemas políticos monopartidistas, dictaduras militares, sociedades que dan preferencia oficial a una raza o una confesión determinada, mercados inundados por la publicidad de un producto dominante, cárteles como la OPEP, sistemas políticos como el de Estados Unidos, en el que dos partidos controlan el sistema electoral

Será que nos merecemos un presidente desquiciado con delirio de caudillo inmortal?

Dictatorship is when the government can easily control and manipulate citizens' demands.

Tyranny come in many forms, whether within or without, the final outcomes are always the same.

We are taught to hate dictators here on Earth, but it will be a different case in Heaven.

A year as an inmate in Kam?t? has taught me what should have been obvious: that the prison system is a repressive weapon in the hands of a ruling minority to ensure maximum security for its class dictatorship over the rest of the population, and it is not a monopoly exclusive to England and South Africa.

Every time you go into your workplace, you leave a democracy and enter a dictatorship.

Vladimir Putin's Russia is typical of dictatorships old and new. It does not try to censor everything. The regime understands that the total control of communism failed because it suppressed too much. On a personal level, the men at the top in the Kremlin do not want to go back to a time when the bribes they received were worth little because the luxuries of capitalism were on the other side of an iron curtain.

In Britain today friends of mine live like dissidents in a dictatorship. They meet in secret. They vet new arrivals to ensure they are not spies. They are ex-Muslims living in a supposedly free country who fear their enemies will damn them as apostates and kill them. How extraordinary that they must hide their true beliefs from all but intimate friends for fear of the consequences. And how shameful that they have no anti-fascist Left worthy of the name to defend them.

Between the dictatorship of technology and the technology of dictatorship, man no longer finds a crack through which he can slip away.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.

le roman « L'Enveloppe noire » (1986) proposait une allégorie du quotidien socialiste avec de forts accents politiques, à une époque où la dictature encourageait l'écrivain « esthète » détaché de la réalité du moment. (p. 49)

Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.

I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language.

In his famous novel 1984, O'Brien states frankly, "The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. . . . The object of power is power.

Slvasta's revolution destroyed his dictatorship