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Dictatorship Quotes

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Every State is a dictatorship.
Antonio Gramsci

Every nation is an autocracy.
Authors on Dictatorship Quotes: Ai Weiwei Evan Esar Will Durant Woody Allen Joseph Kabila Karl Marx Concha Buika Lincoln Diaz-Balart Robert Payne Adam Yauch George Orwell Rem Koolhaas Wu Shanzhuan Pablo Picasso Mohamed Nasheed Karl Popper Alexis Tsipras Jarvis Cocker J. Christopher Herold David Crosby Gloria Allred Tom Tancredo Ted Lindsay Barack Obama Lord Hailsham Newt Gingrich Antonio Gramsci John T. Flynn Hanif Kureishi Dorothy Day Noam Chomsky Tony Snow Teresa Heinz
2.
I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.
Noam Chomsky

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Dictatorships don't always die when the dictator leaves office.
Mohamed Nasheed

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Through the ballot, we can defend our democracy from the threat of dictatorship.
Joseph Estrada

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Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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It can't happen here is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
Karl Popper

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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.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

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In a democracy, you believe it or not; in a dictatorship, you believe it or else.
Evan Esar

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

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We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships.
Tom Tancredo

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

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

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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.
Robert Mondavi

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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
Will Durant

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Fascism is not the result of dictatorship.
John T. Flynn

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There is no such thing as a naval dictatorship.
George Orwell

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I sing against emotional dictatorships, and against the imposition of one person over another, in the name of love.
Concha Buika

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

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

22.
What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners.
Ted Lindsay

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

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

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Democracy was assassinated here when Patrice Lumumba was assassinated. And who brought democracy back to this country? We are the ones who did that after pushing out the dictatorship in 1997.
Joseph Kabila

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

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

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

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Nobody ever recommended a dictatorship aiming at ends other than those he himself approved. He who advocates dictatorship always advocates the unrestricted rule of his own will
Ludwig von Mises

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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.
Bernard Lewis

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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.
Adam Yauch

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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.
Saul Alinsky

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

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There is, of course, nothing wrong in a program that aims to please everybody, except that as a rule it is a prelude to dictatorship.
J. Christopher Herold

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I grew up in a dictatorship in East Africa.
Teresa Heinz

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

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

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

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A totalitarian dictatorship cannot explain; it can only suppress.
Robert Payne

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We preach democracy while supporting dictatorships.
James W. Loewen

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The dictatorship is shut up, democracy is always concerned.
Woody Allen

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Famine and unemployment are the raw material for dictatorships.
Alexis Tsipras

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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.
Rem Koolhaas

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Creation can always lead to dictatorship.
Wu Shanzhuan

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France is a republic, and the rules in theory have been made by everyone rather than imposed by a dictatorship or king or whatever. So it's like, we've got to stick to these rules because we made them.
Jarvis Cocker

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Generally, dictatorships do not work in marriage - or, for that matter, in any other relationship.
Gloria Allred

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Centralized health dictatorship.
Newt Gingrich

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

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The first concern of any dictatorship is, consequently, to subjugate both labor and culture.
Albert Camus

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Fundamentalism is dictatorship of the mind
Hanif Kureishi