Best 212 quotes in «dictatorship quotes» category

But Cuba doesn't have a dictatorship - it's a revolutionary democracy.

Centralized health dictatorship.

Contrary to popular opinion, even totalitarian dictatorships are dependent on the population and the societies they rule.

Democracy is alive, and like any other living thing it either flourishes and grows or withers and dies. There is no in-between. It is freedom and life or dictatorship and death.

Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that.

Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.

Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.

For the first stage of his dictatorship, Vladimir Putin was involved in destroying public space. On the first day he was in office, he introduced legislation that reformed and over five years effectively dismantled the electoral system. So anything that passes for elections in Russia today has nothing to do with actual elections.

Dictatorship is always merely an aria, never an opera.

Every budding dictatorship begins by muzzling the artists, because they're a mouthy lot and they don't line up and salute very easily.

Fascism is not the result of dictatorship.

Fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.

Fundamentalism is dictatorship of the mind

I draw a contrast between American shared governance with "the dictatorship of ministries" wherein policy and direction for the university is ordered by bureaucrats who have never taught a class.

I grew up in a dictatorship in East Africa.

I think that the growing government control of the press is very clear. Turkey is still not a dictatorship, there is still some freedom of the press, but I think it's moving in the wrong direction.

In both life and work, stay flexible. Whether in a country, a company, or a family, the same holds true: Dictatorship and rigidity rarely work. Freedom and elasticity do.

In fact I didn't think about fear much at the time. I felt angry about everything that was happening around me: the violence of the dictatorship and the violence of society.

I think that sexual oppression and dictatorship go hand in hand.

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

I'm from Spain, and in Spain, things in the '80s after the dictatorship, it was like a big explosion of freedom.

I think that our society will not allow anyone to establish a dictatorship again in the future. [Mikhail] Saakashvili will fail.

It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.

It is absolutely important that we have a unified alliance and that we explain to the Russians that you cannot be a 21st-century superpower, or power, and act like a 20th-century dictatorship.

It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of 'Me', which is basically a tyranny of others.

There are things that I love in Iranian cinema and things that I don't. In Iranian cinema, you have to use metaphor because you are living under a dictatorship.

It serves notice that President Bush is serious about promoting freedom, because free societies are a lot more peaceable than dictatorships and monarchies.

I would like to travel to my country again, to a country without a dictatorship, to a post-Putin Russia.

Leadership is neither showmanship nor dictatorship. Leadership is a stewardship and a partnership.

No form of government can survive that excludes dictatorship when the life of the nation is at stake.

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.

The dictatorship is shut up, democracy is always concerned.

There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.

There has never been a communism that worked. They were all dictatorships or oligarchies, every single one.

Under dictatorship, the people in prison are always superior to the people who put them there.

There is no such thing as a naval dictatorship.

There is only one power and one dictatorship whose organisation is salutary and feasible: it is that collective, invisible dictatorship of those who are allied in the name of our principle.

The situation with Tibet has to change. China is one of the last huge dictatorships, holding on to these colonies, provinces. That has to collapse. It's the responsibility of heads of business who are going to do business in China to lay down the law.

The surest and most insidious enemy of freedom is not dictatorship, but complacency.

There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have betrayed us.

Unfortunately, writing and reporting the truth is not allowed under Castro's tyrannical dictatorship

What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners.

We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships.

We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.

We must reject dictatorship in whatever form it takes - and especially when it rears its head in our own midst on the bench.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution is a duty!

A dictator in a country is a big threat to the whole humanity; a democrat in a country is a great hope to the whole world!

You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else's narrative.

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.