If you're running a dictatorship, you don't really have to worry about the welfare or the property rights of the ordinary citizen.… — Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Copy Share Image
Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship must also be disassembled. — George Ayittey Copy Share Image
Majoritarian is when a majority takes a decision. It is not dictatorship. It is about which issue is major. — Prakash Raj Copy Share Image
The senator had only one argument in his favour: his feeling. When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
It's true that General Musharraf opposes my return, seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
The rifle and handgun are 'equalizers' -- the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“If this were a dictatorship it would be a heck of a lot easier... as long as I'm the dictator. Hehehe.” — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The United States turned to repression when its prominence started to slip in Latin America through establishing military dictatorships. — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
Something that comes to us, some gym shoe that comes to us as a result of child labor from a brutal dictatorship,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The people on the streets of Egypt and Tunisia and Libya and Syria and Iran have done more to defeat the ideology… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Liberals never, ever drop a heinous idea; they just change the name. Abortion becomes choice, communist becomes progressive, communist dictatorship becomes people's… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
“Kenya DOES NOT belong to 2 tribes only. Kenya has 42 tribes. to say that the decision of 2 tribes is the… — Akuku Mach Pep Copy Share Image
Aristocracy of the soul cannot be denied because of the blind equality. We can get lost due to ideas about equality. If… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo,… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it. Dealing with Congress is a matter of… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“I can remember when I was a bit of an ETA fan myself. It was in 1973, when a group of Basque… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“the benefits of a dictatorship: Why are you guys so anti-dictators? Imagine if America was a dictatorship. You could let one percent… — Mo Gawdat Copy Share Image
They maintain that only a dictatorship - their dictatorship, of course - can create the will of the people, while our answer… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Politics is the practical exercise of the art of self-government, and somebody must attend to it if we are to have self-government;… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
Hitler's dictatorship was the first of an industrial estate in this age of modern technology, a dictatorship which employed to perfection the… — Albert Speer Copy Share Image
“In a popular state the inhabitants are divided into certain classes,” Montesquieu affirmed in a Marxian manner a century before Marx! So,… — Todor Bombov Copy Share Image
“Looking into the mirror I ask myself: "You live in a house equipped with air conditioning. You eat tasty food. You utilize… — Marinella Venanzi Copy Share Image
“Vladimir Ilyich (Lenin), your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold. Is it possible that you do… — Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Tim Floyd was a guy from college who hadn't won in the league and he still had that college coaching style of… — Baron Davis Copy Share Image
“If you are my food, how am I supposed to feel pity towards you? That would mean starvation for me. “A hungry… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
There has never been a communism that worked. They were all dictatorships or oligarchies, every single one. — David Crosby Copy Share Image
Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, interpreted relations with Israel. Very antagonistic. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on… — Corazon Aquino Copy Share Image
If you stick to the old values and say that you were educated in this way, so you were trained in this… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The negative side of democracy is that the position of ideological minorities is not in power. However, the ideological minorities are often… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“In a dictatorship you must be careful about what you say. In a democracy you can say whatever you want… the important… — Dario de Judicibus Copy Share Image
Liberty isn't a thing you are given as a present. You can be a free man under a dictatorship. It is sufficient… — Ignazio Silone Copy Share Image
The only way of the regular development is: thesis - antithesis - synthesis. Everything else is just a chimera. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the… — Arthur Henderson Copy Share Image
Thing for masses does not have a soul. Everything for masses is designed for stamped people with wooden heads. Wood is not… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The all but unanimous judgment seems to be that we, the democracies, are just as responsible for the rise of the dictators… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
My parents grew up in Haiti, and unfortunately they watched the country they loved slide into dictatorship. — Karine Jean-Pierre Copy Share Image
If someone is calling for democracy, he is calling for an end of a dictatorship and if this is the will of… — Zainab al-Khawaja Copy Share Image
