Best 212 quotes in «dictatorship quotes» category

when your actions towards acquiring leadership in any country portrays blatant mischief orchestrated towards disregarding the concepts of the constitution, you do not only become guilty of hijacking power which rightfully belong to the people, but also, you are guilty of violation of the rights of freedom of the same people that you purport to want to lead. Like any match, elections is competition towards democracy, and all competitions have rules that set guidelines in that particular competition. Any violation of such rules renders that competition invalid. True democracy does not condone compromises. True democracy upholds and adheres to the rule of law, for it is the rule of law that can explicitly define democracy.

Where everyone wants to be a leader, it makes one a follower to want to be a leader, and a leader to know what to follow.

Who closes eyes to dictatorships kneels his eyelids. (Qui ferme les yeux aux dictatures - Agenouille en fait les paupières.)

Wir sind das Volk!" Dieser Satz hat uns gelehrt, dass wir, wenn wir unserer Sehnsucht glauben und ihr vertrauen, die Angst verlieren können. Eine Angst, die willfährige Dienerin jeder Art von nicht legitimierter Herrschaft ist, die uns ohnmächtig macht, die uns bindet. In dem Augenblick aber, in dem wir unsere Angst als Angst benennen und Anpassung und Angst als Geschwisterkinder erkennen, sind wir möglicherweise bereit zu erproben: Können wir auch ohne sie leben? In genau diesem Augenblick wachsen uns jene Kräfte zu, die eine ganze Gesellschaft verändern können.

You can blame the politicians, the businessmen, the generals, the machine... But really, if you're looking to blame someone: blame me. I'm the American System. I'm the machine. That's the price of living in a democracy: we all gotta take the rap.

You want the world to be perfect, Nedril—and that's a noble goal. But the world isn't perfect. It's people like me who give the world the chance to try another day for virtue.

You know history better than I do, you've been teaching all your life. Without real opposition you get dictators down the line. Idi, Amin, Mugabe. No democracy without opposition.

You want Change, today we'll show you Change! Here's your democracy, your human rights, eat it, eat eat eat!

A democracy is a compromise by its nature. It's not a dictatorship.

A 'Dictatorship of the Proletariat' becomes again another dictator.

Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.

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

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

Centralized health dictatorship.

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

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.

Dictatorship is always merely an aria, never an opera.

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

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

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

Fascism is not the result of dictatorship.

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

The dictatorship is shut up, democracy is always concerned.

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.

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

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.

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

There is no such thing as a naval dictatorship.

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.

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.

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

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