Best 212 quotes in «dictatorship quotes» category

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

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

The dictatorship is shut up, democracy is always concerned.

There is no such thing as a naval dictatorship.

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

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

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

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

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.

We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships.

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

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

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution is a duty!

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

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

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.

A country where people are afraid of even their own shadows is surely a country of dictatorship! In such vile countries there are two groups of people: The zombies, the living-dead who serve the dictator and the rest, the clever and honourable people who fight for their freedom!

When we went in the late 1990s, Nigeria was still in a dictatorship. So we didn't go with a mission. It started really with a sort of blankness and open-endedness.

After a democratic interlude the "monarchy" returns with a vengeance, returns by the back door, camouflaged, masked and diabolically perverted—a blood-curdling metamorphosis we know only from nightmares or surrealist films. The reassertion of the natural father-urge does not result in the restitution of the paternal kingdom but in the rise of the Terrifying Father, a Krónos devouring his own children, who are paralyzed by his magnetic glare like rabbits facing a boa constrictor.

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!

A leader should not be a dictator.

All dictators must understand that all the nightmares they have created for innocent people will one day come back for the dictator himself!

All I cared about then was catching a glimpse of Chairman Mao. I turned my eyes quickly away from Liu to the front of the motorcade. I spotted Mao's stalwart back, his right arm steadily waving. In an instant, he had disappeared. My heart sank. Was that all I would see of Chairman Mao? Only a fleeting glimpse of his back? The sun seemed suddenly to have turned gray. All around me the Red Guards were making a huge din. The girl standing next to me had just pierced the index finger of her right hand and was squeezing blood out of it to write something on a neatly folded handkerchief. I knew exactly the words she was going to use. It had been done many times by other Red Guards and had been publicized ad nauseam: "I am the happiest person in the world today. I have seen our Great Leader Chairman Mao!" Watching her, my despair grew. Life seemed pointless. A thought flickered into my mind: perhaps I should commit suicide?

A man might share his wealth, but never his authority.

Americans always want to elect a temporary dictator, but there is no such thing.

At the current mental maturity of the human species, democracy is as barbarian and degrading as dictatorship - it just doesn’t feel that way, because of the illusory sense of control.

Beasts of England had been abolished. From now onwards it was forbidden to sing it.

Because of democracy humanity still have faith in human beings.

But there is a difference between the systematic evil of totalitarianism and the ordinary corruption we find in all institutions, at all times. Totalitarianism is a system of highly organized murder and oppression, driven by ideology. American institutions, in comparison, were not created to facilitate mass murder and dictatorship.

Cameroon is not a country of slaves that no man can free.