Dictatorship Quotes

Every State is a dictatorship.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships.

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

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.

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

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

Fascism is not the result of dictatorship.

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

There is no such thing as a naval dictatorship.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

I grew up in a dictatorship in East Africa.

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

A totalitarian dictatorship cannot explain; it can only suppress.

We preach democracy while supporting dictatorships.

The dictatorship needs to be entirely dismantled. All the rest of the old guard must go.

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.

Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.

The dictatorship is shut up, democracy is always concerned.

Famine and unemployment are the raw material for dictatorships.

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.

Creation can always lead to dictatorship.

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.

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

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