Dictatorship Quotes

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution is a duty!

— Pascal Mercier

I am too serious to be a patriot.

— Ilkin Santak

No ideology could resist capital until now.

— Ilkin Santak

Creation can always lead to dictatorship.

— Wu Shanzhuan

The destiny of my state is not my destiny.

— Ilkin Santak

There are two types of egoism high and primitive.

— Ilkin Santak

Fascism is not the result of dictatorship.

— John T. Flynn

I grew up in a dictatorship in East Africa.

— Teresa Heinz

In many ways, the media today makes dictatorship impossible. But it also makes democracy intolerable.

— Shimon Peres

Evolution of consciousness consists of the gap between generations.

— Ilkin Santak

“If the US is a human melting pot, then Eastern Europe is a scrap yard.”

— Péter Zilahy

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

— Natalie Angier

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.

— George W. Bush

Patriotism has debilitating effects on the people who suffer from it.

— Ilkin Santak

It's very hard to describe an elected government as a dictatorship.

— Alberto Fernandez

I worry about a democracy having nuclear weapons as much as a dictatorship having nuclear weapons.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

“The universe runs on the principle that one who can exert the most evil on other creatures runs the show.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

The old generations have thrown themselves into the abyss between the generations... to be resurrected among the young generations!

— Ilkin Santak

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

— NoViolet Bulawayo

When we went in the late 1990s, Nigeria was still in a dictatorship. So we didn't go with a mission. It started…

— Rem Koolhaas

It is better to kill the barbarian during his coming than to tell your children that there was culture, but the barbarians…

— Ilkin Santak

The state exists at our expense, and we do not live at the expense of the state. For this reason we do…

— Ilkin Santak

High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship - nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a…

— John Green

Any political regime allowing a person to behave obsequiously to it may not be reputable at all. There is no other choice…

— Ilkin Santak

As long term institutions, I am totally against dictatorships. But a dictatorship may be a necessary system for a transitional period. [...]…

— Anonymous

There are no young people who know how to debate, who know how to vote, and who know how to persuade people…

— John Gimlette

the marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a…

— John Green

Cloned chickens walking around without heads, The food is contaminated, the water got lead in it. Population control, make the babies sick,…

— Pharoahe Monch

We need to reform the constitution in Chile. The current one was written and passed in 1980 during the dictatorship. Some changes…

— Michelle Bachelet

In the early 50s in the US, there was what was called McCarthyism and the only reason it succeeded was that there…

— Noam Chomsky

Multiple political parties are a fact of life throughout Europe and most of the West. Today the only countries without strong multiparty…

— Thomas Naylor

Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world,…

— Alice Walker

“What the engineers had first seen in the October coup d'état was ruin. (And for three years there had been ruin and…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“when your actions towards acquiring leadership in any country portrays blatant mischief orchestrated towards disregarding the concepts of the constitution, you do…

— Akuku Mach Pep

Dictatorship nations are outlaws. Any free nation had the right to invade Nazi Germany and, today, has the right to invade Soviet…

— Ayn Rand

In South America euphemism appears to be the grisly preserve of violent power. 'Liberty' was the name of the biggest prison in…

— Isabel Fonseca

It took six weeks of debate in the Senate to get the Arms Embargo Law repealed--and we face other delays during the…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

In the first place, it is obvious that not only is wealth concentrated in our times but an immense power and despotic…

— Pope Pius XI

Democracy appears to me potentially a higher form of political organization than any kind of dictatorship. But if it turns out that…

— Benjamin Spock

“Little had changed after independence. Jomo Kenyatta’s face hung in a framed portrait in every shop where Queen Elizabeth’s had been. Some…

— Paul Theroux